Abstract

It has been shown that conjunction in natural language can refer to interpretations akin to those of the conditional. This means that it can be thought that there are cases in which conjunction is true in exactly the same rows in a truth table in which the conditional is, that is, in situations similar to the ones indicated by Philo of Megara for the conditional. The philosophical, linguistic, and logical consequences of this are obvious. For this reason, this paper describes three ways to interpret that phenomenon. The first one is based upon the models of the mental model theory, which are iconic in the sense attributed to that word by Peirce. The second one tries to build logical formulae from such models. And the last one relates those very models to possible worlds such as those of modal logic.