"nonmisleading" - 1 õppematerjal

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No necessita- tion, no semantic presupposition. (8), though interrogative, meets a similar fate. If you are married and you are asked (8) (and you have never beaten your spouse), here is the correct answer: "No."6 Because one can stop doing a thing only if one has at some time been doing it. (Of course the answer "No" is misleading because, via the Maxim of Strength, it implicates that one has beaten one's spouse and continues to do so. The correct and nonmisleading answer would be, "No, because I never have beaten her/him in the first place.") (9) is possible to dismiss in this way, but harder. (9)Rocky did not realize that his fly was open; he could hardly have realized that, because his fly wasn't open does not seem contradictory either; but there is not so obvious a Gricean explanation of (9a)'s negation implicating (9b). (10) is perhaps the best alleged example of semantic presupposition on our list.