Neglect-Zero Effects in Dynamic Semantics

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2023
Host editors
  • D. Deng
  • M. Liu
  • D. Westerståhl
  • K. Xie
Book title Dynamics in Logic and Language
Book subtitle Third Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning, TLLM 2022, virtual event, April 1–4, 2022 : revised selected papers
ISBN
  • 9783031258930
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783031258947
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 3rd Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning, TLLM 2022
Pages (from-to) 1-24
Number of pages 24
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract

The article presents a bilateral update semantics for epistemic modals which captures their discourse dynamics [54] as well as their potential to give rise to fc inferences [58]. The latter are derived as neglect-zero effects as in [3]. Neglect-zero is a tendency in human cognition to disregard structures that verify sentences by virtue of an empty witness set. The upshot of modelling the neglect-zero tendency in a dynamic setting is a notion of dynamic logical consequence which makes interesting predictions concerning possible divergences between everyday and logico-mathematical reasoning.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25894-7_1
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85149889203
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