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In this paper I shall explore the influence of anti-exceptionalism about logic on the formal study of natural language conditionals. The paper is divided into three parts.
I shall begin by presenting the main tenets anti-exceptionalism about logic. Then I shall lay groundwork for discussing the anti-exceptionalist perspective on the problem of logical interpretation of natural language conditionals. I shall address the following question: why do we apply logic to natural language? In particular, why are we interested in applying logic to conditionals?
I shall conclude by discussing various solutions which anti-exceptionalism may bring into the conditional analysis. First and foremost, I propose that we develop methods of testing the formal interpretations against sets of empirical data. Such general approach provides a strong basis for interdisciplinary research involving empirical linguistics, math- ematics (including logic) and programming (both as used for practical implementation of the results and as a source of potential testing methods).
