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Counterfactual donkeys don’t get high

Author(s) -

Michael Deigan

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

zas papers in linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1435-9588

DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.60.2018.472

Subject(s) - donkey , counterfactual thinking , counterfactual conditional , property (philosophy) , similarity (geometry) , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , psychology , social psychology , geography , philosophy , epistemology , image (mathematics) , archaeology

I present data that suggest the universal entailments of counterfactual donkey sentencesaren’t as universal as some have claimed. I argue that this favors the strategy of attributingthese entailments to a special property of the similarity ordering on worlds provided bysome contexts, rather than to a semantically encoded sensitivity to assignment.Keywords: donkey sentences, counterfactuals, conditionals, similarity, simplification.

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