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Digesting inherent modality

I’m reading a Kratzer that deals with inherent modality. She discusses some suffixes in German which make adjectives out of verbs, roughly analagous to -able in English. So I started thinking about edible, and whether the semantic content requires that it only modify items which would cause no ill effects if ingested. Various dictionary definitions [...]
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