Modal Entailments  

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WERNER, TOM

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 28 no. 4 (2011), page 451–484.
Fulltext: Werner_Tom.pdf (192.31KB)

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In this article, I argue for the existence of semantic properties that cut across and unify distinct types of modality. These properties exist in the form of asymmetric relations holding between modal sentences—entailments that can involve modalities with distinct ordering sources. For example, John will go entails John can go and is entailed by John must go, with more than one ordering source involved in these entailments. To account for these modal entailments, I arrange the relevant ordering sources along a hierarchy. I posit that lower ranked ordering sources cannot reorder worlds and can at best resolve ties left by higher ranked ordering sources. In the defence of the proposal, I appeal to a disparity principle, by which the prejacent in a modal statement is not allowed to hold in all or in no worlds in the modal base. I also dispute the notion that an empty ordering source plays a role in modal interpretations.

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