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Predication and cognitive context: Between minimalism and contextualism
Author(s) -
Balletta Sandro,
Domaneschi Filippo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/rati.12245
Subject(s) - contextualism , presupposition , minimalism (technical communication) , context (archaeology) , meaning (existential) , truth condition , semantics (computer science) , epistemology , set (abstract data type) , computer science , linguistics , cognitive science , psychology , philosophy , paleontology , human–computer interaction , interpretation (philosophy) , biology , programming language
In this paper, we suggest a strategy for modelling cognitive context within a truth‐conditional semantics, using Asher's model of predication. This allows us to introduce the notion of type presupposition intended as a lexical constraint to the composition of the truth‐conditional content. More specifically, we suggest that this model of predication produces a notion of truth‐conditional meaning where the cognitive context fixes a set of lexical restrictions and forced modifications. We conclude that this model might offer an intermediate position between Minimalism and Contextualism: an account that provides intuitive truth conditions within a formal semantic theory.