How We Reason by Philip Johnson-Laird

Author:Philip Johnson-Laird
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 2013-02-16T02:29:00+00:00

means that he's here (and, as you know, my name is Phil).

A second effect of modulation is to add information to models. It may introduce various relations between the events referred to in the conditional. In the conditional, "If he put the book on the shelf then it fell off") the first event occurred before the second event, and the book finished up lower than its position on the shelf. Temporal relations call for models of possibilities at different times. They may be organized so that one model occurs after another in a mental sequence of events, or in a static way akin to a diagram or graph.

Another modulation of this sort adds a putative causal mechanism to an interpretation:

If you lift the switch then the light bulb comes on.

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