Scope ambiguities and conditionals

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 284-307

  Over, David ^a   Douven, Igor ^b   Verbrugge, Sara ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Conditionals; Epistemic modals; Scope ambiguities; the Equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887993442     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2013.810172     Document Type: Article

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