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Thursday, December 14, 2017

Ignorance Implicatures and Non-Doxastic Attitude Verbs

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One of Grice's unpublications is about conjunctions and disjunctions in the scope of non-doxastic attiude verbs. 

Yes, you heard that right!

These constructions, Grice claims, generate a certain type of ignorance implicature. 

It has been argued that the best way to account for these implicatures is by an appeal to a notion of contextual redundancy (vide e.g. Schlenker, Fox, Mayr and Romoli). 

This pragmatic approach to ignorance implicatures obviously contrasts with a semantic account of disjunctions under `wonder' that appeals to so-called "exhausti cation" (Roelofsen and Uegaki). 

It may been argued that "exhausti cation"-based theories cannot handle embedded conjunctions.

Therefore, a pragmatic account of ignorance implicatures seems preferable. 

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