I suppose it is worth noting (since I’m not sure many share my interest in the imperatives literature of the 1950s-60s) that Maria Aloni’s solution to the Ross Paradox (“Free Choice, Modals, and Imperatives,” Natural Language Semantics 15, doi) was formulated (in all of its essentials, anyway) in a Lennart Aqvist Analysis piece from 1965 (JSTOR). Aloni does make use of a special logic of alternatives to derive the solution, but the logic doesn’t appear to be doing any work in this case. (She also does cite Aqvist’s piece in her bibliography, but the fundamental equivalence of their views probably wasn’t obvious.)
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