Open AccessLogical Integrity
Author(s) -
Akbar Anvari
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5951
pISSN - 2163-5943
DOI - 10.3765/salt.v28i0.4419
Subject(s) - presupposition , constraint (computer aided design) , logical consequence , computer science , sanctions , mathematical economics , epistemology , theoretical computer science , calculus (dental) , mathematics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , medicine , law , political science , geometry , dentistry
Building on previous literature I argue that the principle Maximize Presupposition! as standardly conceived is too permissive in that it sanctions certain utterances that are intuitively infelicitous. I propose as an alternative to MP a novel principle called Logical Integrity and I showed that while LI makes the same prediction as MP for the basic cases it is restrictive enough to account for the problematic cases discussed. Furthermore, I argue that LI without further ado make interesting predictions for a novel type of example, the cases discussed in Magri (2009), and Hurford's Constraint. Finally, I discuss and defused one potential counter-example to LI.