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Natural-language "if" sentences about what may be the case
An indicative conditional is a natural-language conditional sentence used to talk about what may actually be the case, as in: "If Leona is at home, she isn't in Paris." Indicatives are commonly contrasted with counterfactual conditionals, which typically bear special grammatical marking and are used to discuss ways things might have been but are not. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Indicative conditionalA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Path Semantics for Indicative ConditionalsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Economic TrendsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Indicative conditionalsCited 255 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun A type of conditional statement in natural language that expresses a relationship between two propositions, and used to convey the situation where the truth of one proposition (the antecedent) suggests or implies the truth of another proposition (the consequent).
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Indicative conditionals
Indicative Conditionals
Indicative conditionals, conditional probabilities, and the “defective truth-table”: A request for more experiments
INDICATIVE CONDITIONALS
The effects of conditional indicative language on the comprehension and acceptance of advertising claims
Contextualist Theories of the Indicative Conditional and Stalnaker’s Thesis
AN EXPRESSIVIST ANALYSIS OF THE INDICATIVE CONDITIONAL WITH A RESTRICTOR SEMANTICS
The Casson Memorial Lecture 2003: Past Conditional, Present Indicative, Future Indefinite
🆕 Influential since 2022
Path Semantics for Indicative Conditionals
Certain and Uncertain Inference with Indicative Conditionals
The historical development of imperfect indicative and conditional inflection in Pyrenean Romance*
Dutch‐booking indicative conditionals
Acceptance and Certainty, Doxastic Modals, and Indicative Conditionals
📚 Books worth reading
Economic TrendsOffice for National Statistics · 2003
Weapons of Math DestructionCathy O'Neil · 2016
An atlas of impossible longingAnuradha Roy, Arundhati Roy · 2008
Castes and tribes of southern IndiaEdgar Thurston · 1909
MegatrendsJohn Naisbitt · 1982
TajTimeri Murari · 1985- 📕NicaraguaNéstor Avendaño · 2002
Megatrends 2000John Naisbitt · 1990
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