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Monstrous Content and the Bounds of Discourse.

Bounds consequence provides an interpretation of a multiple-conclusion consequence relation in which the derivability of a sequent is understood as the claim that it is conversationally out-of-bounds to take a position in which each member of Γ is asserted while each member of Δ is denied. Two of th...

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Published in:Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 111 - 144
Main Author: Ferguson, Thomas Macaulay
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Feb2023
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          Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 107, 100190, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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        Bounds consequence
        Strict-tolerant logic
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        Weak Kleene logic
      ab: Bounds consequence provides an interpretation of a multiple-conclusion consequence relation in which the derivability of a sequent is understood as the claim that it is conversationally out-of-bounds to take a position in which each member of Γ is asserted while each member of Δ is denied. Two of the foremost champions of bounds consequence—Greg Restall and David Ripley—have independently indicated that the shape of the bounds in question is determined by conversational practice. In this paper, I suggest that the standard treatments of bounds consequence have focused heavily on the matter of veridicality at the expense of ignoring other features by which conversational bounds are set, prime among them being the matter of content or subject-matter. Furthermore, I argue that the semantic behavior of propositions containing "monstrous" content—content whose introduction is inappropriate to a context independently of veridical considerations—leads to a weak Kleene account of bounds consequence.
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