TY - JOUR AU - Jenkins, Robin PY - 2019/07/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Expected utility and intentional action: The semantics of try JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 23 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2019.v23i1.548 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/548 SP - 533-546 AB - <p>This paper explores a new semantics for <em>try</em>. Sharvit’s (2003) and Grano’s (2017a) event semantics are evaluated in light of novel data pertaining to the entailments that <em>try </em>licenses. A new account is proposed which incorporates information about an agent’s expected utilities (Jeffrey, 1965). This new account, building on the insights of the previous ones, predicts <em>try</em>’s peculiar entailment properties. Further data is presented which lends itself to this new approach.</p> ER -