Chimerical conditionals
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چکیده
This paper introduces and analyzes chimerical conditionals, a class of conditionals that are ambiguous between so called ‘biscuit’ and hypothetical conditional readings. First, an analysis of the biscuit / hypothetical distinction is developed which draws on the pragmatic account of Franke (2009) and pins the distinction on the presence of a special kind of pragmatic presupposition, where what is presupposed is a structural constraint on the common ground. Building on this analysis, chimericity is then showed to derive from a systematic ambiguity of a definite and usually implicit argument in the consequent of chimerical conditionals, between a rigid designator and an individual concept reading. This ambiguity is argued to arise from the different ways in which the common ground can satisfy the familiarity presuppositions associated with the definite argument. I thank Cleo Condoravdi for extensive discussion of this and previous versions of this paper. The thoughtful and penetrating critique of Katrin Schultz and three anonymous reviewers have made an invaluable contribution to the content of this paper. For more useful and insightful comments and criticism, I thank Richmond Thomason, Malte Willer, Sam Cummings, Zotlan Gendler Szabo, Kai von Fintel, and audiences at the 6th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication in Riga, and at Stanford, UCLA, UT Austin, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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