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  <Title>A Uniform Treatment of Pragmatic Inferences in Simple and Complex Utterances and Sequences of Utterances</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Drawing appropriate defeasible inferences has been proven to be one of the most pervasive puzzles of natural language processing and a recurrent problem in pragmatics. This paper provides a theoretical framework, called stratified logic, that can accommodate defeasible pragmatic inferences. The framework yields an algorithm that computes the conversational, conventional, scalar, clausal, and normal state implicatures; and the presuppositions that are associated with utterances. The algorithm applies equally to simple and complex utterances and sequences of utterances. null</Paragraph>
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