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The Plan’s the Thing : Deconstructing Futurate Meanings
Modifié par
Bridget Copley
le - 6 novembre 2007
A futurate is a sentence with no obvious means of future reference, which
conveys that a future-oriented eventuality is planned or scheduled. I argue in
this paper that the component of planning found in the meaning of futurates
should be derived from the more familiar modal concepts of abilities and desires.
A futurate statement presupposes that some contextually salient entity d, the
director, has the ability to bring it about that p, and asserts that d is committed
to bringing it about that p.
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