| dc.contributor.author | Khoo, Justin Donald | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-09T20:13:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-09T20:13:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-07 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1573-0964 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125750 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature America, Inc | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1007/S11229-018-1877-6 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | Other repository | en_US |
| dc.title | Disjunctive antecedent conditionals | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Khoo, Justin, "Disjunctive antecedent conditionals." Synthese 2018 (July 2018): doi 10.1007/S11229-018-1877-6 ©2018 Author(s) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy | |
| dc.relation.journal | Synthese | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-11-05T16:11:53Z | |
| dspace.date.submission | 2019-11-05T16:11:57Z | |
| mit.journal.volume | 2018 | en_US |
| mit.metadata.status | Complete | |
