Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
denying the antecedent, pragmatics, conditional perfection, implicature, fallacy
Start Date
22-5-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
25-5-2013 5:00 PM
Abstract
It has been argued that a fragment of discourse that constitutes a fallacy of denying the antecedent at the level of what is literally said may not be a fallacy at the level of speaker meaning. The pragmatic phenomenon involved here is known as conditional perfection. I argue that the account of conditional perfection in van der Auwera (1997) and Horn (2000) has several problems, and I discuss several possible alternatives.
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It has been argued that a fragment of discourse that constitutes a fallacy of denying the antecedent at the level of what is literally said may not be a fallacy at the level of speaker meaning. The pragmatic phenomenon involved here is known as conditional perfection. I argue that the account of conditional perfection in van der Auwera (1997) and Horn (2000) has several problems, and I discuss several possible alternatives.
