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19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial
The truth grounds for 'not A' are the possibilities incompatible with truth grounds for A [Rumfitt]
     Full Idea: The truth-grounds of '¬A' are precisely those possibilities that are incompatible with any truth-ground of A.
     From: Ian Rumfitt (The Boundary Stones of Thought [2015], 7.1)
     A reaction: This is Rumfitt's proposal for the semantics of 'not', based on the central idea of a possibility, rather than a possible world. The incompatibility tracks back to an absence of shared grounding.