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Atlas, Jay David. 1979. How linguistics matters to philosophy: Presupposition, truth and meaning. In Oh, Choon-Kyu and David A. Dinneen, eds. Syntax and semantics 11: Presupposition. Academic Press. pp. 265–282.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
ambiguity | conversational implicature | linguistics | meaning | negation | philosophy | presupposition | truthfulness

Annotation

A. argues that there is no reason to suppose that conversational implicature is distinct from conventional meaning, and that therefore the claim that there is only unambiguous negation and that a second reading may arise as a conversational implicature, must be reevaluated.