Entailments are Cancellable |
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Authors: | Alex Davies |
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Institution: | University of Tartu, Department of Philosophy, Tartu, Estonia |
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Abstract: | Several philosophers have recently claimed that if a proposition is cancellable from an uttered sentence then that proposition is not entailed by that uttered sentence. The claim should be a familiar one. It has become a standard device in the philosopher's tool‐kit. I argue that this claim is false. There is a kind of entailment—which I call “modal entailment”—that is context‐sensitive and, because of this, cancellable. So cancellability does not show that a proposition is not entailed by an uttered sentence. I close the paper by describing an implication this has for a disagreement between J. L. Austin and Grice concerning the relation between felicity and truth. 1 |
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Keywords: | cancellability entailment context‐sensitivity |
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