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Did People in the Middle Ages Know that the Earth Was Flat?

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Author	Colonna Dahlman, Roberta
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The goal of this paper is to explore the presuppositionality of factive verbs, with special emphasis on the verbs know and regret. The hypothesis put forward here is that the factivity related to know and the factivity related to regret are two different phenomena, as the former is a semantic implication (an entailment) that is licensed by the conventional meaning of know, while the latter is a purely pragmatic phenomenon that arises conversationally. More specifically, it is argued that know is factive in the sense that it both entails and (pragmatically) presupposes p, while regret is factive in the sense that it only (pragmatically) presupposes p. In a recent article, Hazlett (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80(3), 497–522, 2010) shows with authentic examples how know is used non-factively in ordinary language, and he observes in these examples, as he says, “a threat to Factivity.” I argue that non-factive uses of factive verbs, such as know and regret, far from being a threat to factivity, show that, on the one hand, know is ambiguous between a factive and a non-factive sense; on the other hand, in the case of regret, the presupposition of factivity has to be intended as a merely pragmatic implication which can be suspended by the speaker herself.
Starting Page	139
Ending Page	152
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03535150
Journal	Acta Analytica
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18746349
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-09-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Factivity Know Regret Entailment Pragmatic presupposition Presupposition cancellation Ambiguity Philosophy Logic Metaphysics Epistemology Philosophy of Mind
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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