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100On denying presuppositionsSynthese 194 (6). 2017.Strawson :96–118, 1964) argued that definite NPs trigger presuppositions as an aspect of their conventional meanings, and this semantic conception of presupposition triggers is incorporated into the binding theory of presuppositions. The phenomenon of presupposition denials, however, presents a problem for the semantic conception of presupposition triggers, for in such denials the alleged semantic presuppositions seem to be “cancelled” by a negation operator. Geurts :274–307, 1998; Presuppositio…Read more
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30Unarticulated TensionIn François Récanati, Isidora Stojanovic & Neftalí Villanueva (eds.), Context Dependence, Perspective and Relativity, Mouton De Gruyter. pp. 6--19. 2010.
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125Indexical Color Predicates: Truth Conditional Semantics vs. Truth Conditional PragmaticsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 42 (2): 71-100. 2012.Truth conditional semantics is the project of ‘determining a way of assigning truth conditions to sentences based on A) the extension of their constituents and B) their syntactic mode of combination’. This research program has been subject to objections that take the form of underdetermination arguments, an influential instance of which is presented by Travis: … consider the words ‘The leaf is green,’ speaking of a given leaf, and its condition at a given time, used so as to mean what they do me…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |