Martin (1992: 197):
Inclusive conditionals can be further divided into factual and counterfactual; with counterfactuals the beta-clause [omitted verb] an additional secondary [past] tense.
COUNTERFACTUAL[4:70] If we had prepared well,we would have won.
Factual conditionals choose among high, median and low modalisation, according to the probability of the Cause taking place:
FACTUAL: MODALITY POSSIBLE[4:71] If we enterwe'll win.
FACTUAL: MODALITY PROBABLE[4:72] Provided we enterwe'll win.
FACTUAL: MODALITY CERTAIN[4:73] As long as we enterwe'll win.
Blogger Comments:
[1] This confuses the logico-semantic relation of condition with the truth values of the meanings realised by the clauses conditionally related in a nexus.
(In formal logic, a counterfactual conditional — in contradistinction to a material conditional — is a subjunctive conditional containing an if-clause which is contrary to fact.)
(In formal logic, a counterfactual conditional — in contradistinction to a material conditional — is a subjunctive conditional containing an if-clause which is contrary to fact.)
[2] This confuses the logico-semantic relation of condition with interpersonal modality values. Within that error, it wrongly claims that the beta-clauses of three clause nexuses differ in probability values. In terms of logical meaning, each nexus is simply if P then Q.
If the nexuses had differed in modalisation values, the 'factual conditionals' would've looked something like the following, with the modalisation values enacted in the alpha-clauses:
If the nexuses had differed in modalisation values, the 'factual conditionals' would've looked something like the following, with the modalisation values enacted in the alpha-clauses:
If/Provided/As long as we enter, we'll possibly winIf/Provided/As long as we enter, we'll probably winIf/Provided/As long as we enter, we'll certainly win
[3] Because the logico-semantic relation is condition, rather than cause: reason, there is no cause-effect relation construed in these clause nexuses.
If the logico-semantic relation had been reason, there would've been a cause-effect relation construed in the clause nexuses.
If the logico-semantic relation had been reason, there would've been a cause-effect relation construed in the clause nexuses.
