... of semantics, c.f. Cohen's (1971) argument that the English connectives and their logical counterparts are irreconcilably different and a pragmatics approach similar to that of Grice (1967) cannot cope with these differences and thus require some semantic information. A strict interpretation of the word 'or' into its logical operative form would imply that, reminding ourselves that the truth-table for OR is as follows: A B A or B 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 'A or B' should be read as meaning that either or both of the clauses being true leads to the disjunction being true. This is known as inclusive disjunction. In natural language we could easily imagine a situation in which this type of disjunction would be the implied meaning for the word 'or'. For example, consider the following sentence: 'In a course requiring an overall mark of 50% to pass and consisting of 50% coursework ...

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