Embedding If and Only If


Συγγραφέας: Adam Sennet, Jonathan Weisberg


Adam Sennet, Jonathan Weisberg: Embedding If and Only If (pdf, 14 pages)
Some left-nested indicative conditionals are hard to interpret while others seem fine. Some proponents of the view that indicative conditionals have No Truth Values (NTV) use their view to explain why some left-nestings are hard to interpret: the embedded conditional does not provide the truth conditions needed by the embedding conditional. Left-nestings that seem fine are then explained away as cases of ad hoc, pragmatic interpretation.