{"id":10387,"date":"2017-09-25T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2017-09-25T17:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T21:18:43","slug":"lprg-925-on-stone-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/09\/25\/lprg-925-on-stone-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"LPRG 9\/25 - on Stone 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Discussion on (Stone 1994) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.rutgers.edu\/~mdstone\/pubs\/iwcs94.pdf\"><i>The reference argument of epistemic must<\/i><\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Monday September 25, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 7th Floor Seminar room<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Epistemic <em>must<\/em> is used to present a conclusion. In this paper, I explore the hypothesis that this should be modeled computationally using the notion of argument presented by Simari and<br clear='none'\/>\nLoui. An utterance of <em>must p<\/em> in conversational context <em>K<\/em> is interpreted as asserting that the argument <em>\u008bA,p\u009b<\/em> is justified in <em>K<\/em>. The parameter <em>A<\/em> provides a set of reasoning rules which, along with factual premises from which they derive <em>p<\/em>, must be salient in <em>K<\/em> for the utterance to be felicitous.<\/p>\n<p>Simari and Loui&#8217;s formulation describes a relationship of defeat between arguments. Thus, in this account as in previous ones, the conclusions presented by epistemic must may be defeasible. This proposal improves on previous accounts in three key respects. First, the criterion that the argument be justified ensures that the speaker believes <em>p<\/em> when uttering <em>must p<\/em>. Second, the requirement that the speaker intend the hearer to recover the argument helps to explain the<br clear='none'\/>\ndistribution and of must in discourse and the accommodation sometimes involved in understanding uses of must. Third, the link between the claim made by must and a specific argument correctly predicts the variation in apparent force of the modal in different contexts: it varies according to<br clear='none'\/>\nthe strength of the argument and the speaker&#8217;s intentions in providing the argument.<\/p>\n<p>Because this interpretation for must incorporates restrictions based on salience into a frame- work designed to be relatively tractable, it may be uniquely suited for implementation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The discussion will be lead by Ma\u009aa Mo?nik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Discussion on (Stone 1994) The reference argument of epistemic must Date and time: Monday September 25, 1-2pm Location: 7th Floor Seminar room Abstract: Epistemic must is used to present a conclusion. In this paper, I explore the hypothesis that this should be modeled computationally using the notion of argument presented by Simari and Loui. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10387"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10426,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions\/10426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}