A note on existential import

Studia Logica 47 (1):35 - 40 (1988)
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It is shown that a linguistically well-motivated semantical analysis of certain extensions of categorical sentences is compatible with a semantics that fulfils the so-called existential import condition, but is not compatible with a semantics that does not fulfil this condition.

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10.1007/bf00374050

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