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Selected Works of Angelika Kratzer
Article
An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought
Linguistics and Philosophy (1989)
  • Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
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Abstract
This is the (no longer current) older 1989 version of my Lumps of Thought paper. Chapter 5 of my 2012 book Modals and Conditionals has a substantially revised version of this article. The section about accidental versus non-accidental generalizations (section 5) was completely rewritten, for example. Please check out the new version in the book, which cannot be posted here for copy right reasons.
Keywords
  • counterfactuals,
  • conditionals,
  • situation semantics,
  • lumping,
  • law-like generalizations
Disciplines
Publication Date
1989
DOI
10.1007/BF00627775
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Citation Information
Kratzer, Angelika (1989). An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought. Linguistics and Philosophy 12 (5), 607-653.