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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

A pre-semantics for counterfactual conditionals and similar logics. (arXiv:1701.00696v1 [cs.AI])

The elegant Stalnaker/Lewis semantics for counterfactual conditonals works with distances between models. But human beings certainly have no tables of models and distances in their head. We begin here an investigation using a more realistic picture, based on findings in neuroscience. We call it a pre-semantics, as its meaning is not a description of the world, but of the brain, whose structure is (partly) determined by the world it reasons about.



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