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Implicature vs implication
Usually, conversational implicature is a way of understanding how it is that when someone utters a sentence, they convey more than the literal conventional meaning of the sentence. So, for example, ...
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Is it rational to use disjunctive imperative sentences?
There is a lot to unpack here and I'm not sure I'll answer all of it, so apologies in advance.
It is easy to conflate reason and logic and the OP mentions the disjunctive, which is a logical operator ...
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What's it called when the consequent is indifferent to the antecedent?
What you have in that case is a consequent Q that holds whether or not the antecedent P is true. In English we often tag a conditional of this kind by using the word 'even' or 'still' or both. E.g. &...
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What's it called when the consequent is indifferent to the antecedent?
Morton's Fork
Either you live modestly or you live extravagantly
If you live modestly (you saved money), then you can afford charity
If you live extravagantly (you're rich), then you can afford ...
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Implicature vs implication
But I'm not sure I understand how this is possible and was wondering if someone would be able to provide some example to elucidate the difference between the two scenarios.
Context: Medieval prison ...
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Implicature vs implication
You should read the Wikipedia page on the topic. Quite informative.
As far as I can tell, going by what's on Wikipedia, given a proposition, if the implication is false then so is the proposition ...
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What's it called when the consequent is indifferent to the antecedent?
A formula that is true regardless of the truth values of any other formulas is known as a "tautology".
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What's it called when the consequent is indifferent to the antecedent?
In computer logic, that is known as a don't care condition.
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Does Grice's quotation have a coherent meaning, and if so, what is it?
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Technically speaking one can have both coherence in meaning, and be bad writing. Just based on the fact that this is a famous logician in a peer-reviewed journal makes the probability of ...
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Is it rational to use disjunctive imperative sentences?
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Depending on context, yes. When a parent gives an imperative in the form of an exclusive disjunction to their child, and is known for following through on enforcement, it is a perfectly ...
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