Abstract
Consider the sentences
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(1)
You may take an apple,
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You may take a pear, and
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You may take an apple or take a pear.
The history of this paper is long and rather unfortunate. In the summer of 19731 produced a draft part of which I subsequently incorporated into [6]. Since then I have given several talks on the material that had remained unpublished, with increasing diffidence and a corresponding inability to persuade the audience. I should mention in particular presentations at the conference in Bad Hojmburg which led to these proceedings, and to the Oxford Philosophy Society in the winter of 1976. I am grateful for the many criticisms that I have received on those occasions, in particular from Richmond Thomason in Bad Homburg and from Michael Woods in Oxford; they have helped me to face up to my growing doubts about the solution to the problem of disjunctive permission sentences of which I gave a sketch in [6] and about the elaborate theory I had built upon that solution.
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Kamp, H. (1978). Semantics Versus Pragmatics. In: Guenthner, F., Schmidt, S.J. (eds) Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Languages. Synthese Language Library, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9775-2_9
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