Timeline for Does a sentence with an adjunct entail the same sentence without the adjunct?
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| Aug 27, 2021 at 10:30 | answer | added | Natalie Clarius | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 17:53 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | Sentences are about linguistics and they are mere structures. It's statements that entail things and statements are about logic. Your question is about logic, and entailment has nothing to do with particular sentence structures, it works in all the languages irrespective of which sentence structure the given statement takes in the given language. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 16:23 | comment | added | Rosie F | If P entails Q, that does not entail that "not P" entails "not Q" (in fact not Q entails not P). "I never eat meat for breakfast." does not entail "I never eat meat." | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 16:02 | comment | added | jlawler | It's the use of the and the presuppositions involved in definite descriptions that's failed you. Entailment is largely a matter of individual lexical items rather than structures; since "adjunct" is a wastebasket category its presence or absence shouldn't have anything to do with entailment. | |
| Aug 23, 2021 at 15:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 23, 2021 at 13:45 | history | asked | Tim Osborne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |