Conditional perfection: the truth and the whole truth
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https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v25i0.3079Abstract
Conditional Perfection is argued to arise when a sentence is silently conjoined with an exhaustivized version of the same string. The proposed account, the 'whole truth theory', is argued to not only capture Conditional Perfection but to also extend to upper-bounding inferences and exhaustive answers. A crucial piece of the analysis is the independently supported claim that bare conditionals are ambiguous between universal and existential readings.Downloads
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2016-05-14
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