Inference

Defeasibility (linguistics)

In the linguistic field of pragmatics, an inference is said to be defeasible or cancellable if it can be made to disappear by the addition of another statement, or an appropriate context. For example, sentence [i] would normally implicate [ii] by scalar implicature: i: Alice has three children.ii: Alice has exactly three children. But the implicature can be cancelled by the modification in [ib]: ib: Alice has three children, and possibly more. Whereas conversational implicatures and presuppositions may be cancelled, an entailment may not be. For example, [i] entails the proposition "Alice has at least three children", and this cannot be cancelled with a modification like: ic: Alice has three children, and possibly less. (Wikipedia).

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Inferences: Implicature - Semantics in Linguistics

In this video on #semantics/#pragmatics in #linguistics, we talk about our second type of inference: implicature, and do a few examples with the defeasability / cancellation test and the reinforcement test. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGYSfZb

From playlist Semantics in Linguistics

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From playlist Multivariable calculus

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From playlist Multivariable Calculus

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From playlist Multivariable Calculus

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Multivariable Calculus | The derivative of a vector valued function.

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From playlist Multivariable Calculus

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From playlist Calculus

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From playlist Closer To Truth - Julian Baggini Interviews

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Julian Baggini - Is Atheism a New Faith?

Is atheism a belief system, a new 'faith' as it were, in the same way that atheists claim that theism is a belief system? Atheists reject this attack asserting that they are just using critical reasoning to expose irrational theism. What would make atheism is a new 'faith'? Click here to

From playlist Closer To Truth - Julian Baggini Interviews

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From playlist Virtual Conference

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From playlist CCHF Virtual Symposia

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From playlist Theory of numbers

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From playlist Linear Programming

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From playlist Multivariable Calculus

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From playlist Vectors for Multivariable Calculus

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From playlist Linguistics - A First Encounter

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On 1 August 2014, the VLC started two more MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) with almost a thousand participants from all over the world. Some of them might be totally unaware of what linguistics could be. Here is a brief answer: A video about what linguistics is, and, what it is not.

From playlist Linguistics - A First Encounter

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GEN106 - Christian Mair on "Progress in Linguistics"

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From playlist 5 Reasons - Linguists about their Fields

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