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Linglib.Phenomena.Anaphora.Studies.ParasiticAttitudes

World type for Bill/Fred wife-beating scenario.

Models three possible states:

  • Fred was beating and stopped (presupposition satisfied, assertion true)
  • Fred was beating and continues (presupposition satisfied, assertion false)
  • Fred never beat (presupposition fails)
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      Empirical judgment about attitude sequence and presupposition projection.

      Records:

      • The sentence
      • Whether the presupposition projects to the speaker
      • Whether the presupposition is attributed to the attitude holder
      • Whether the sentence is acceptable
      • sentence : String

        The sentence being judged

      • presupProjectsToSpeaker : Bool

        Does the presupposition project to the speaker?

      • presupProjectsToHolder : Bool

        Is the presupposition attributed to the attitude holder?

      • acceptable : Bool

        Is the sentence acceptable?

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          Believe-hope sequences filter presuppositions.

          "Bill believed Fred had been beating his wife and he hoped Fred would stop"

          The presupposition of "stop" (that Fred was beating) is filtered by the preceding belief ascription -- it does not project to the speaker.

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            Hope-believe does not filter.

            "*John hopes Mary will come. He believes Sue will come too."

            The "too" presupposition (someone salient will come) is not filtered by the preceding hope -- it projects to the speaker, causing infelicity if no one is salient. This asymmetry shows the dependency is one-directional: believe → hope.

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              Believe-imagine also filters (imagination is parasitic on belief).

              "John believed there was a monster and imagined it was chasing him" → No presupposition to speaker about monster existence

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                Believe-dream also filters (dreams are parasitic on beliefs).

                "John believed the king existed and dreamed the king was bald" → No presupposition to speaker about king existence

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                  Imagine-believe does not filter (belief is not parasitic on imagination).

                  "?John imagined there was a monster. He believed it was dangerous." → Awkward: "it" presupposes established referent not from imagination

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                    "Fred stopped beating his wife" as a presuppositional proposition.

                    Presupposition: Fred was beating his wife Assertion: Fred no longer beats his wife

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                      "Fred was beating his wife" (the antecedent belief).

                      No presupposition, just an assertion.

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                        The assertion of "Fred was beating" entails the presupposition of "Fred stopped beating".

                        This is what enables filtering in believe-hope sequences.

                        Classification of attitudes by their parasitic status.

                        • Doxastic: belief, knowledge - these are the "host" attitudes
                        • Parasitic: hope, fear, imagine, dream - depend on doxastic attitudes
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                            Common attitude verbs and their classification.

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                              Filtering can only occur when a doxastic attitude precedes a parasitic one.

                              This captures Maier's asymmetric dependency.

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                                All empirical judgments collected in this module.

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                                  The filtering cases are exactly those where doxastic precedes parasitic.

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                                    The non-filtering cases are those where parasitic precedes doxastic.

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