Claim6ff909ab6a236e536267afd1e23f0d9f39b307292f50e0b159ed04b6a29e4ebb·Paper reconstruction — Sebastian Bücking (2025), Empirical and theoretical arguments against equating exclamatives and emotive assertions

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Since an exclamative need not express surprise at an unexpected state of affairs, its attitude is an abstract origo-bound regard of the content as remarkable, derived through nondescriptive functional properties rather than a descriptive emotive predicate.

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Since an exclamative need not express surprise at an unexpected state of affairs, its attitude is an abstract origo-bound regard of the content as remarkable, derived through nondescriptive functionaluntested-default

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