Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium (
2017)
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Abstract
This paper is about conjunctions and disjunctions in the scope of non-doxastic atti-
tude verbs. These constructions generate a certain type of ignorance implicature. I argue
that the best way to account for these implicatures is by appealing to a notion of contex-
tual redundancy (Schlenker, 2008; Fox, 2008; Mayr and Romoli, 2016). This pragmatic
approach to ignorance implicatures is contrasted with a semantic account of disjunctions
under `wonder' that appeals to exhausti cation (Roelofsen and Uegaki, 2016). I argue
that exhausti cation-based theories cannot handle embedded conjunctions, so a pragmatic
account of ignorance implicatures is superior.