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- Title
Sly Pete in Dynamic Semantics.
- Authors
Goldstein, Simon
- Abstract
In 'Sly Pete' or 'standoff' cases, reasonable speakers accept incompatible conditionals, and communicate them successfully to a trusting hearer. This paper uses the framework of dynamic semantics to offer a new model of the conversational dynamics at play in standoffs, and to articulate several puzzles posed by such cases. The paper resolves these puzzles by embracing a dynamic semantics for conditionals, according to which indicative conditionals require that their antecedents are possible in their local context, and update this body of information by eliminating the possibilities where the antecedent is true and the consequent is false. In this way, the dynamic analysis draws on insights from the material conditional and contextualist analyses, while explaining how standoffs are genuine disagreements.
- Subjects
SEMANTICS; TRUST; PUZZLES
- Publication
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2022, Vol 51, Issue 5, p1103
- ISSN
0022-3611
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10992-022-09660-w