Conditionals and Compositionality

• Published in: Noûs (Bloomington, Indiana) Vol. 17; pp. 181 - 194
• Main Author: Higginbotham, James
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2003
• Subjects: Compositionality; Conditional Clauses; Logic of Language; Philosophy of Language; Quantifiers

Indicative conditionals of the type Everyone will succeed if he works hard/no one will succeed if he goofs off, held by Higginbotham (1986) to be a counterexample to compositionality as the interpretation of the if-clause depends on external information, are examined in the framework of Robert Staln...