Logical Forms linked to certain a priori False Conditionals

• Autores: Miguel López Astorga
• Localización: Comprendre: revista catalana de filosofia, ISSN 1139-9759, Vol. 22, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 101-112
• Idioma: inglés
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  • According to a study carried out by Quelhas, Rasga, and Johnson-Laird in 2017, it seems that people tend not to understand false conditionals in the way expected by standard logic, that is, following the material interpretation of the conditional. [...] However, I try to argue here that such responses did not really reveal that the way their participants denied the conditionals included in the study cannot be captured by classical logic, but only that the logical forms of such denied sentences do not correspond to the one of the conditional, as well as the actual formal structures relating their antecedents and their consequents that can be built. [...]