Abstract It is a common intuition that the antecedent of an indicative conditional should have something to do with its consequent, that they should be somehow connected. In fact, many conditionals sound unacceptable precisely because they seem to suggest a connection which is not there. Although the majority of semantic theories of conditionals treat this phenomenon as something pragmatic, for instance, something that is conversationally implicated, no one has offered a full-fledged pragmatic explanation of why missing-link, and, in particular, false-link conditionals strike us as odd. The aim of this paper is to explore the possibility that the link is an example of a conversational implicature. We discuss possible tests one can employ to identify conversational implicatures, and, ultimately, we show that the connection between a conditional’s antecedent and consequent fails them all.

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错误链接条件有什么问题？

摘要普遍的直觉是指示性条件的先决条件应与其结果有关，它们应以某种方式联系起来。实际上，许多条件听起来是不可接受的，因为它们似乎暗示了不存在的联系。尽管大多数条件句的语义理论都将此现象视为务实的事物，例如，与对话相关的事物，但没有人对失踪，尤其是假链接的条件为何罢工提出过全面的务实解释。我们很奇怪。本文的目的是探讨链接是会话含义的示例的可能性。我们讨论了可以用来识别会话含义的可能测试，最终，