Conditional Reasoning: The Unruly Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics of IfConditional reasoning is reasoning that involves statements of the sort If A (Antecedent) then C (Consequent). This type of reasoning is ubiquitous; everyone engages in it. Indeed, the ability to do so may be considered a defining human characteristic. Without this ability, human cognition would be greatly impoverished. What if thinking could not occur. There would be no retrospective efforts to understand history by imagining how it could have taken