Free choice effects and exclusive disjunction. Issue 4 (21st April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fusco, Melissa
• Is Part Of: Inquiry. Volume 65:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 456
• Page End: 470
• Publication Date: 2022-04-21
• Subjects: Free choice -- experimental data -- permission -- modals -- disjunction; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social Sciences -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; Philosophie -- Périodiques; Sciences sociales -- Philosophie -- Périodiques; 105
• DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2020.1758768
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-174X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper presents experimental data relevant to understanding the modal free choice effect (Kamp, 1973 ) when there are more than two disjuncts under the relevant modal operator. The results suggest that speakers' willingness to draw free choice inferences is correlated with whether the embedded disjuncts are modally separable, in a sense brought into focus by considering cases within which the relevant propositions fail to be pairwise redundant but are redundant as a set.