Probability Judgments of Gappy Sentences

Cremers, Alexandre; Križ, Manuel; Chemla, Emmanuel

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50696-8_5

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“…One natural assumption about ordering partial propositions according to their likelihood is that they must be evaluated relative to a context in which their presuppositions are satisfied. This yields the same outcome as when the ordering is based on the likelihood of the partial propositions being true or undefined in the context, as given in (26) (see Cremers et al, , and references therein, for related discussion). (Note that (26) coincides with (20) for cases in which the propositions are total.)…”

Section: Explanationmentioning

confidence: 83%

Any: Logic, likelihood, and context (Pt. 2)

Crnič

2019

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Any has a more restricted distribution than other determiners. While it is uncontroversial that providing an adequate description of this distribution requires recourse to semantics, a full description has remained elusive. This holds, in particular, due to the intricate behavior of any in modal and non‐monotone environments, where sensitivity to extra‐grammatical factors is sometimes attested. Drawing on the insights of Kadmon and Landman, and on independently motivated mechanisms in grammar, we show that such descriptive challenges can be answered without abandoning a uniform treatment of any across the different environments. The resulting picture falls naturally out of an approach that takes any to be accompanied by covert even. There are two parts to this review. Part I attends to the distribution of any in entailment‐reversing and modal environments. Part II turns to an explanation of this distribution, its predictions about the distribution of any in non‐monotone environments, and to differences between any and some allied expressions. The review concludes by pointing out several open questions left for future research.

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Section: Explanationmentioning

confidence: 83%

Any: Logic, likelihood, and context (Pt. 2)

Crnič

2019

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“…Experimental results also indicate a difference between homogeneity violations and presupposition failures (Cremers et al, ; Zehr, ).…”

Section: Homogeneity As a Kind Of Gappinessmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Newer analyses that build on Schwarzschild and Löbner instead treat homogeneity as something sui generis while noting parallels with vagueness (Križ, ; Križ & Spector, ; see Cremers et al, for relevant experimental evidence). Meanwhile, Magri () attempts to assimilate homogeneity to implicatures in a particular way but see Križ for counterarguments.…”

Section: Homogeneity As a Kind Of Gappinessmentioning

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Homogeneity effects in natural language semantics

Križ

2019

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Natural language sentences in which a property is ascribed to a plurality of objects have truth conditions that are not complementary with the truth conditions of the negations of such sentences. Starting from this observation, this paper presents an overview of so‐called homogeneity effects. Arguably a pervasive feature of natural language, homogeneity has reflexes in various domains and opens up a prospect for a unified analysis of phenomena that were hitherto viewed in quite different terms.

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“…Kri z views homogeneity as a requirement of truth in the context of a trivalent intensional semantics. Another possible motivation for this trivalent stance is that the theory of homogeneity presuppositions seems to force unintuitive predictions about the subjective probabilities that it is natural to assign to the contents of sentences that do carry homogeneity requirements (Cariani and Santorio 2018; for an experimental study of judgments of probability in the context of homogeneity, see Cremers et al 2017). 24 While we speak of 'homogeneity presuppositions', we want to be ultimately neutral about which treatment of this phenomenon is to be implemented.…”

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Conditional Heresies

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Goldstein

2018

Philos Phenomenol Research

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The principles of Conditional Excluded Middle (CEM) and Simplification of Disjunctive Antecedents (SDA) have received substantial attention in isolation. Both principles are plausible generalizations about natural language conditionals. There is however little discussion of their interaction. This paper aims to remedy this gap and explore the significance of having both principles constrain the logic of the conditional. Our negative finding is that, together with elementary logical assumptions, CEM and SDA yield a variety of implausible consequences. Despite these incompatibility results, we open up a narrow space to satisfy both. We show that, by simultaneously appealing to the alternative-introducing analysis of disjunction and to the theory of homogeneity presuppositions, we can satisfy both. Furthermore, the theory that validates both principles resembles a recent semantics that is defended by Santorio on independent grounds. The cost of this approach is that it must give up the transitivity of entailment: we suggest that this is a feature, not a bug, and connect it with recent developments of intransitive notions of entailment.

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Probability Judgments of Gappy Sentences

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Any: Logic, likelihood, and context (Pt. 2)

Any: Logic, likelihood, and context (Pt. 2)

Homogeneity effects in natural language semantics

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