Disjunctive antecedent conditionals
Disjunctive antecedent conditionals (DACs)—conditionals of the form if A or B, C—sometimes seem to entail both of their simplifications (if A, C; if B, C) and sometimes seem not to. I argue that this behavior reveals a genuine ambiguity in DACs. Along the way, I discuss a new observation about the r...
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| description | Disjunctive antecedent conditionals (DACs)—conditionals of the form if A or B, C—sometimes seem to entail both of their simplifications (if A, C; if B, C) and sometimes seem not to. I argue that this behavior reveals a genuine ambiguity in DACs. Along the way, I discuss a new observation about the role of focal stress in distinguishing the two interpretations of DACs. I propose a new theory, according to which the surface form of a DAC underdetermines its logical form: on one possible logical form, if A or B, C does entail both of its simplifications, while on the other, it does not. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1257502024-06-25T18:31:53Z Disjunctive antecedent conditionals Khoo, Justin Donald Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Disjunctive antecedent conditionals (DACs)—conditionals of the form if A or B, C—sometimes seem to entail both of their simplifications (if A, C; if B, C) and sometimes seem not to. I argue that this behavior reveals a genuine ambiguity in DACs. Along the way, I discuss a new observation about the role of focal stress in distinguishing the two interpretations of DACs. I propose a new theory, according to which the surface form of a DAC underdetermines its logical form: on one possible logical form, if A or B, C does entail both of its simplifications, while on the other, it does not. 2020-06-09T20:13:54Z 2020-06-09T20:13:54Z 2018-07 2019-11-05T16:11:53Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1573-0964 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125750 Khoo, Justin, "Disjunctive antecedent conditionals." Synthese 2018 (July 2018): doi 10.1007/S11229-018-1877-6 ©2018 Author(s) en 10.1007/S11229-018-1877-6 Synthese Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Nature America, Inc Other repository |
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