Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

How does the word 'if' help things we say mean what they mean? It can work together with other words like 'maybe' and 'probably' to make things we say less strong. But how does it do that?

Many people have tried to find out how this works, but we will show that they face a big problem when one looks at people talking to each other and pointing to things the other said.

Can we do better?