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entainment

By 褚宝凤 2018-12-16 595次浏览

What is the entainment?I want to know more about it.What has been written in textbook makes me confused.

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  • 李欣 老师 2018-12-17

    Entailment is the relationship between two sentences/propositions, where the truth of one proposition implies the truth of the other since both of them are involved with the meaning of words. It’s the sentences, not speakers that have entailments. Entailments also depend on the meaning of the sentence, not the meaning of the context.  

    For example,  

    a)The terrorists assassinated the king.

    b)The king died.

    c)The terrorists assassinated someone.

    b) and c) are true because sentence a) is true. Thus, their truth depends on the meaning of the utterance.

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  • 李欣 老师 2018-12-17

    Entailment is the relationship between two sentences/propositions, where the truth of one proposition implies the truth of the other since both of them are involved with the meaning of words. It’s the sentences, not speakers that have entailments. Entailments also depend on the meaning of the sentence, not the meaning of the context.  

    For example,  

    a)The terrorists assassinated the king.

    b)The king died.

    c)The terrorists assassinated someone.

    b) and c) are true because sentence a) is true. Thus, their truth depends on the meaning of the utterance.

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