Moral asymmetries and the semantics of <em>many</em>

Moral asymmetries and the semantics of <em>many</em>

We present the results of four experiments concerning the evaluations people make of sentences involving <em>many</em>, showing that two sentences of the form <em>many As are Bs</em> and <em>many As are Cs</em> need not be equivalent when evaluated relative to a b...

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Main Authors: Paul Egré, Florian Cova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2015-10-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
Subjects:
many
quantification
context-sensitivity
vagueness
Knobe effect
framing effects
severity bias
probability
value
evaluativity
moral norms
prospect theory
Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2976

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