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While Magri proposes an account of obligatory implicatures which explains some cases where this generalization expects infelicity, he does not provide a general account of this generalization. In this paper I argue for a perspective on the \u2018pruning\u2019 of alternatives which predicts this generalization, building on the counter-intuitive idea that contradictions are relevant in every context (Lewis 1988). I further argue, using disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier as a test case, that an extension of this view to obligatory ignorance inferences provides a new perspective on the Logical Integrity Generalization put forward by Anvari (2018b), while avoiding some empirical problems for this generalization.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/jos\/ffae009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,8]],"date-time":"2024-08-08T23:59:21Z","timestamp":1723161561000},"page":"149-173","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Obligatory Implicatures and the Relevance of Contradictions"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"41","author":[{"given":"Moshe E","family":"Bar-Lev","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Tel Aviv University"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024083016060223100_ref1","first-page":"711","article-title":"Logical integrity","volume-title":"Semantics and Linguistic 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