• Title of article

    Truth and Conventional Implicature

  • Author/Authors

    BARKER، STEPHEN J. نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    0
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    0
  • Abstract
    Are all instances of the T-schema assertable? I argue that they are not. The reason is the presence of conventional implicature in a language. Conventional implicature is meant to be a component of the rule-based content that a sentence can have, but it makes no contribution to the sentenceʹs truthconditions. One might think that a conventional implicature is like a force operator. But it is not, since it can enter into the scope of logical operators. It follows that the semantic content of a sentence is not given simply by its truth-conditional content. So not all instances of the T-schema are assertable in the relevant sense. Consequently, there is a strong case to be made against truth-conditional semantics of the disquotational variety and deflationism about truth.
  • Keywords
    Relative performance evaluation , Cost benchmarking , Cost index , UK reference costs
  • Journal title
    MIND
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    MIND
  • Record number

    65416