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Processes that govern the interpretation of conditional statements by lay reasoners are considered a key-issue by nearly all reasoning psychologists. An argumentative approach to interpretation is outlined, based on the idea that one has to retrieve the intention of the speaker to interpret a statement, and an argumentative based typology of conditionals is offered. Some empirical support to the approach is provided, as well as some theoretical support from an evolutionary perspective.
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Bonnefon, JF., Hilton, D.J. (2005). Getting the Point of Conditionals: An Argumentative Approach to the Psychological Interpretation of Conditional Premises. In: Kern-Isberner, G., Rödder, W., Kulmann, F. (eds) Conditionals, Information, and Inference. WCII 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11408017_4
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