Bare conditionals in the red
| Autor: | Elena Herburger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Important conclusion Semantics (computer science) Law of excluded middle 05 social sciences Duality (optimization) 06 humanities and the arts Limiting 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Linguistics Epistemology Philosophy of language Philosophy Negation Downward entailing 060302 philosophy 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Linguistics and Philosophy. 42:131-175 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0549 0165-0157 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10988-018-9242-2 |
| Popis: | Bare conditionals, I argue, exhibit Conditional Duality in that when they appear in downward entailing environments they differ from bare conditionals elsewhere in having existential rather than universal force. Two recalcitrant phenomena are shown to find a new explanation under this thesis: bare conditionals under only, and bare conditionals in the scope of negative nominal quantifiers, or what has come to be known as Higginbotham’s puzzle. I also consider how bare conditionals behave when embedded under negation, arguing that such conditionals often involve denial negation. One important conclusion that emerges from the discussion is that an account of bare conditionals that validates Conditional Excluded Middle is not warranted. By limiting the scope of the (variably) strict analysis Conditional Duality is also a way of maintaining such an account. |
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