{"id":10343,"date":"2017-09-18T06:09:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2017-09-18T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T22:11:07","slug":"lprg-0918-on-ninan-kelly-gaus-and-thomas-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/09\/18\/lprg-0918-on-ninan-kelly-gaus-and-thomas-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics-Philosophy Reading Group 09\/18 - on Ninan; Kelly Gaus and Thomas Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Kelly Gaus and Thomas Byrne<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Discussion on (Ninan 2015) <a href=\"http:\/\/semanticsarchive.net\/Archive\/WZlNTg0Y\/NinanDeontic.pdf\"><i>Two Puzzles about Deontic Necessity<\/i><\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Monday September 18, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 7th Floor Seminar room<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deontic modal must has two surprising properties: an assertion of must p does not permit a denial of p, and must does not take past tense complements. I first consider an explanation of these phenomena that stays within Angelika Kratzer\u0092s semantic framework for modals, and then offer some reasons for rejecting that explanation. I then propose an alternative account, according to which simple must sentences have the force of an imperative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Kelly Gaus and Thomas Byrne Title: Discussion on (Ninan 2015) Two Puzzles about Deontic Necessity Date and time: Monday September 18, 1-2pm Location: 7th Floor Seminar room Abstract: The deontic modal must has two surprising properties: an assertion of must p does not permit a denial of p, and must does not take past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10372,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/10372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}