Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery

IF 1.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Milo Phillips-Brown
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‘If you want to go to Harlem, you have to take the A train’ doesn’t look special. Yet a compositional account of its meaning, and the meaning of anankastic conditionals more generally, has proven an enigma. Semanticists have responded by assigning anankastics a unique status, distinguishing them from ordinary indicative conditionals. Condoravdi & Lauer (2016) maintain instead that “anankastic conditionals are just conditionals.” I argue that Condoravdi and Lauer don’t give a general solution to a well-known problem: the problem of conflicting goals. They rely on a special, “effective preference” interpretation for want on which an agent cannot want two things that conflict with her beliefs. A general solution, though, requires that the goals cannot conflict with the facts. Condoravdi and Lauer’s view fails. Yet they show, I believe, that previous accounts fail too. Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery. EARLY ACCESS
Anankastic条件句仍然是个谜
“如果你想去哈莱姆区,你必须坐A火车”看起来并不特别。然而,对其含义的组合描述,以及更普遍的anankastic条件句的含义,已经证明是一个谜。语义学家的回应是赋予anankastics一个独特的地位,将其与普通的指示条件句区分开来。Condoravdi和Lauer(2016)坚持认为“anankastic条件句只是条件句。”。他们依赖于一种特殊的、“有效偏好”的需求解释,根据这种解释,代理人不能想要与她的信仰相冲突的两件事。然而,一般的解决方案要求目标不能与事实相冲突。Condoravdi和Lauer的观点失败了。然而,我相信,它们表明,以前的账目也失败了。Anankastic条件句仍然是个谜。早期访问
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