Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2019-11-18 DOI:10.3765/SP.12.13

Milo Phillips-Brown

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Abstract

‘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

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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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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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