Enthymemetic Conditionals

Eimear Maguire


Abstract
To model conditionals in a way that reflects their acceptability, we must include some means of making judgements about whether antecedent and consequent are meaningfully related or not. Enthymemes are non-logical arguments which do not hold up by themselves, but are acceptable through their relation to a topos, an already-known general principle or pattern for reasoning. This paper uses enthymemes and topoi as a way to model the world-knowledge behind these judgements. In doing so, it provides a reformalisation (in TTR) of enthymemes and topoi as networks rather than functions, and information state update rules for conditionals.
Anthology ID:
S19-1018
Volume:
Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019)
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Editors:
Rada Mihalcea, Ekaterina Shutova, Lun-Wei Ku, Kilian Evang, Soujanya Poria
Venue:
*SEM
SIGs:
SIGLEX | SIGSEM
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
168–177
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-1018
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-1018
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Eimear Maguire. 2019. Enthymemetic Conditionals. In Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2019), pages 168–177, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Enthymemetic Conditionals (Maguire, *SEM 2019)
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