Canonica, Caitlin Rose;
(2022)
Borderline Contradictions.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Borderline contradictions have long been considered to be false, but recent developments in the intersection of the elds of experimental philosophy and linguistics have lead to a consensus that ordinary speakers of natural language nd borderline contradictions to be true. Furthermore, speakers are more likely to agree to disjunctive borderline contradictions (:(A _ :A)) than their conjunctive counterparts (A ^ :A). We focus our attention on a series of studies of this inequality, culminating in Egr e and Zehr's 2016 algorithmic account, which invokes strict and tolerant operators to predict that while speakers are more likely to agree to disjunctive contradictions than to conjunctive contradictions, they are also more likely to agree to both of these than to their positive and negative subparts (A and :A). We present the results of three new studies, one a replication of Egr e and Zehr's work, the results of which suggest that speakers only nd the positive subsentence to be false, suggesting that some leading accounts of how speakers interpret borderline contradictions may require modi cation.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Borderline Contradictions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154070 |
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