I sent a class-wide email with this information earlier, but I wanted to make it available on the class website too…<\/p>\n
Two clarificatory notes about your homework assignment for tomorrow (Thursday, 10\/22):<\/p>\n
1. \u00c2\u00a0In the Filtering conditions provided on page 2 of the assignment, S stands for complex sentences of
\nthe form ‘If A, then B’ and ‘A and B’:<\/p>\n
(i) \u00c2\u00a0If A presupposes P, then ‘if A, then B’ and ‘A and B’ also presuppose P.
\n(ii) \u00c2\u00a0If B presupposes P, then ‘if A, then B’ and ‘A and B’ also presuppose P unless A = P.<\/p>\n
2. \u00c2\u00a0In Section III, “Another Revision of the Filtering Conditions”, focus your attention on Part B. \u00c2\u00a0That is, I
\nam most interested in knowing whether (10) presuppose (8f), and whether this presupposition is
\naffected by our background knowledge about John McCain. \u00c2\u00a0In Part C, you should certainly state
\nwhether your revised filtering conditions from Section II correctly predict the facts about (10), and you
\nshould certainly attempt to revise them if they don’t. \u00c2\u00a0But this revision is much trickier than the one I’ve
\nasked for in Section II, and so will be graded accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I sent a class-wide email with this information earlier, but I wanted to make it available on the class website too… Two clarificatory notes about your homework assignment for tomorrow (Thursday, 10\/22): 1. \u00c2\u00a0In the Filtering conditions provided on page 2 of the assignment, S stands for complex sentences of the form ‘If A, then …<\/p>\n