On the Lumping Semantics of Counterfactuals  

Oleh:

Kanazawa, Makoto ; Kaufmann, Stefan H. E. ; Peters, Stanley

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 22 no. 2 (May 2005), page 129–151.
Topik: Semantics; Semantics of Counterfactuals;
Fulltext: vol 22, no 2, p 129-151.pdf (179.33KB)

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Kratzer (1981) discussed a nai¨ve premise semantics of counterfactual conditionals, pointed to an empirical inadequacy of this interpretation, and presented a modification—partition semantics—which Lewis (1981) proved equivalent to Pollock’s (1976) version of his ordering semantics. Subsequently, Kratzer (1989) proposed lumping semantics, a different modification of premise semantics, and argued it remedies empirical failings of ordering semantics as well as of nai¨ve premise semantics. We show that lumping semantics yields truth conditions for counterfactuals that are not only different from what she claims they are, but also inferior to those of the earlier versions of premise semantics.

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