Synthese, Vol. 194, No. 2, Special Issue on A PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK AT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSON (February 2017), pp. 631-654 (24 pages) This paper offers a novel conversational implicature ...

Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...

Based on the new experimental evidence, we argue that a link between a conditional antecedent and the consequent is semantically expressed rather than pragmatically conveyed. In our paper, we focus on ...