Download PDFOpen PDF in browserCurrent versionA Minimally Sufficient Analysis of Sufficiency Modal ConstructionsEasyChair Preprint 9418, version 37 pages•Date: December 6, 2022AbstractA well-known compositionality problem involves the interaction between `only' and teleological modality: `only' can weaken a necessity statement and a necessity modal can suspend a characteristic inference associated with `only', the inference to the prejacent. Existing proposals all resort to non-standard assumptions either about `only' or what it combines with. We show that a standard analysis of `only' and a plausible analysis of teleological modality can account for the compositionality problem. Keyphrases: only, prejacent problem, scalar alternatives, sufficiency modal construction, teleological modality
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