Towards a semantics for biscuit conditionals |
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| Authors: | Stefano Predelli |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK |
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| Abstract: | This essay proposes a semantic analysis of biscuit-conditionals, such as Austin’s classic example “there are biscuits in the cupboard if you want some”. The analysis is grounded on the ideas of contextual restrictions, and of non-character encoded aspects of meaning, and provides a rigorous framework for the widespread intuitions that (i) the if-clause in a biscuit-conditional is truth-conditionally idle, but (ii) it ‘qualifies’ the speech-act in question. In the concluding section of this essay, the analysis is also applied to the importantly similar phenomenon of speech-act adverbs. |
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| Keywords: | Biscuit conditionals Semantics Indexicals |
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