Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
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DisjunctionDisjunctions belong to the stock-in-trade examples ofsentences that have (scalar) Q-<strong>implicatures</strong> associated withthem.But things aren’t as straightforward as is often thought.Working hypothesis: the lexical meaning of “or” isinclusive: “ϕ or ψ” means that at least one of ϕ and ψ istrue.<strong>Quantity</strong> <strong>implicatures</strong>