| Abstract: | In this paper I shall propose and discuss a new theory of indicative conditionals in English, concentrating on the connectives if, only if, even if , and unless. By ".a theory of these connectives I mean a systematic assignment of logical forms to sentences containing them, which (a) accounts for such sentences' felt implications and other intuitive semantical properties, (b) explains the ways in which their truth-values depend upon context, and (c) accords with and accounts for noteworthy aspects of their surface-syntactic behavior. I shall also comment on the difference between indicative and subjunctive conditionals and shall suggest that indicatives and subjunctives are semantically identical though pragmatically distinct. |
