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The Relation between Factual and Counterfactual Conditionals
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Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Rasga, Célia; Johnson-Laird, P. N. – Cognitive Science, 2018
What is the relation between factual conditionals: "If A happened then B happened," and counterfactual conditionals: "If A had happened then B would have happened?" Some theorists propose quite different semantics for the two. In contrast, the theory of mental models and its computer implementation interrelates them. It…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Correlation