Challenges for independence-driven and context-repair responses to the proviso problem

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7931372
AutoresAlex Silk (0000-0002-9341-9411, University of Birmingham, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen30
Número3
Páginas363-377
Fecha de publicación2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNatural Language Semantics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0925-854X • E-ISSN: 1572-865X
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11050-022-09194-6
OpenAlexW4293182745
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas12

This note presents challenge cases for prominent pragmatic responses to the proviso problem. I offer examples of uses of conditionals if $\psi,\,\phi_{P}$ ψ , φ P that seem to commit the speaker unconditionally to the presupposition P of the consequent clause φ , even though the sentence’s predicted semantic presupposition ψ ⊃ P is antecedently satisfied (contrary to context-repair accounts), and independence between ψ and P isn’t antecedently assumed (contrary to independence-driven accounts). The examples provided avoid problems with other examples from the literature used against pragmatic accounts. I leave the matter as an unresolved challenge for satisfaction theories of presupposition

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