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On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature

Author(s) -

Leon Horsten

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

synthese

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851

H-Index - 65

eISSN - 1573-0964

pISSN - 0039-7857

DOI - 10.1007/s11229-005-9076-7

Subject(s) - implicature , philosophy of language , interpretation (philosophy) , inference , philosophy of science , scalar (mathematics) , algebraic number , mathematics , computer science , metaphysics , epistemology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , pragmatics , programming language , mathematical analysis , geometry

Two simple generalized conversational implicatures are investigated :(1) the quantitative scalar implicature associated with ‘or’, and (2) the ‘not-and’-implicature, which is the dual to (1). It is argued that it is more fruitful to consider these implicatures as rules of interpretation and to model them in an algebraic fashion than to consider them as nonmonotonic rules of inference and to model them in a proof-theoretic way.

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