Tipper is ready but he is not strong enough: minimal proposition, question under discussion, and what is said
Published in Philosophical Studies, 2020
A standard objection to Cappelen and Lepore’s (2005) Semantic Minimalism is that minimal propositions are explanatorily idle. But Schoubye and Stokke (2016) recently proposed that minimal proposition and the question under discussion of a conversation jointly determine what is said in a systematic and explanatory way. This note argues that their account both overgenerates and undergenerates. Journal Philpapers