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An implicature is contextually cancellable if it can fail to manifest in a different context. For example, if Bob says "We have two spare bedrooms", this would normally implicate that his house has exactly two spare bedrooms. But this implicature disappears if Bob is speaking with Carole and Diane
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if it can be made to disappear by the addition of another statement, or an appropriate context. For example, sentence would normally implicate by
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may not be. For example, entails the proposition "Alice has at least three children", and this cannot be cancelled with a modification like:
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explicitly cancellable if it is possible to cancel it by adding a statement to the effect of "but not
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who are planning a visit to Bob's city and looking for a place to stay.
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But the implicature can be cancelled by the modification in :
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