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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Refudiate lexical pragmatics

To refudiate.

Symbol: R.

Dyadic relation

Rxy

x refudiates y

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Meaning postulate

Truth-conditions.

to refudiate that p.

U refudiates that p.
U refudiates x

(x)Rxy --> ... nec/suf. conditions

U is anti x.
U refutes that p.
U repudiates that p.
U repudiates y.

Blend?

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