Towards a semantics for biscuit conditionals

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作者：

Stefano Predelli

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[1] University of Nottingham,Department of Philosophy

来源：

Philosophical Studies | 2009年 / 142卷

关键词：

Biscuit conditionals; Semantics; Indexicals;

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摘要：

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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页码：293 / 305

页数：12

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