Entities and Indices

M.J. Cresswell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

274 Seiten

1990 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-0967-3 (ISBN)

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In ordinary discourse we appear to ta1k about many things that have seemed mysterious to philosophers. We say that there has been a hitch in our arrangements or that the solution to the problem required us to examine all the probable outcomes of our action. So it would seem that we speak as if in addition to eloeks, mountains, queens and grains of sand there are hitches, arrangements, solutions, probiems, and probable outcomes. It is not immediately obvious when we must take such ta1k as really assuming that there are such to develop tests for things, and one of the tasks in this book is discerning what has eome to be called ontological commitment, in naturallanguage. Among the entities that natural language appears to make reference to are those connected with temporal and modal discourse, times, possibilities, and so on. Such entities play a crueial role in the kind of semantieal theories that I and others have defended over many years. These theories are based on the idea that an essential part of the meaning of a sentence is constituted by the conditions under whieh that sentenee is true. To know what a sentence says is to know what the world would have to be !ike for that sentence to be true.

I Multiple Indexing.- 1 A basic intensional language.- 2 ‘Now’ and ‘then’.- 3 ‘Actually’.- 4 Indices and world variables.- 5 Mediated relations.- 6 A second-order treatment.- II Ontological Commitment.- 7 Possibilist quantification.- 8 Possibilities.- 9 Intersentential operators.- 10 Substitutional quantification.- 11 Modality and supervenience.- 12 Counterpart theory.- III Indexical Quantification.- 13 Generalized quantifiers.- 14 Quantifiers as indexical operators.- 15 Time and world quantifiers.- 16 Context and indices.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.1990
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy ; 41
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 274 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
ISBN-10	0-7923-0967-7 / 0792309677
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-0967-3 / 9780792309673
Zustand	Neuware