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Linguistic studies suggest that the core meaning of "or" is inclusive and that the exclusive interpretation is the result of other (extra-semantic) factors such as pragmatic reasoning.
Applying supervised learning techniques to the annotated data, I found that a learner who makes use of these contextual cues can learn the inclusive as well as exclusive interpretation of disjunction from the language heard.
Israel is a secular society that some say is growing less secular with religious militants and the chief rabbinate that would like to impose a harsh and exclusive interpretation of Judaism upon the entire society.
One piece of evidence supporting the implicature hypothesis is that the exclusive interpretation seems cancelable.
But another possibility is that the exclusive interpretation is a conventional conversational implicature rather than a second sense.
Grice's Razor is often invoked to support classifying the exclusive interpretation of "p or q" as an implicature rather than as a second sense.
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It is also important to let go of exclusive interpretations of our sacred texts and ask how gay Muslims interpret verses of the Qur'an about homosexuality.
The resulting percept may remain stable or alternate between two mutually exclusive interpretations over time23.
The selectively detailed narratives offer mutually exclusive interpretations of the first crucial days of the conflict, with each side contending that the other deliberately ignited the clashes and then recklessly inflamed the confrontations with further violence.
I present an in-depth annotation study demonstrating that exclusive interpretations correlate with contextual cues (such as intonation and the semantic relation of the alternatives "or" combines with) in children's input.
In this sense, invariance or stability theories can be understood as an alternative to exclusive interpretations of non-strict laws and as an attempt to deal with the dilemma of triviality and falsity.
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