Clearing a Path for Conventionalist Modal Semantics

Name: Clearing a Path for Conventionalist Modal Semantics
Brand: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
SKU: 9783838327259
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Understanding 'necessarily' without possible worlds or Platonic properties

Autor: Jesse Butler

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

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In the context of modal semantics, I show that a 'conventionalist analytic-deflationary' position is...

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Autor

Jesse Butler

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2010

Stránok

252

EAN

9783838327259

Enbook ID

06892312

Vydavateľ

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Hmotnosť

393

Rozmery

150 x 220 x 15

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In the context of modal semantics, I show that a 'conventionalist analytic-deflationary' position is live option. According to this view, sentences of the form 'Necessarily, S' (for a sentence S) are understood to be true if and only if it is analytic that S. (There are some qualifications for sentences in which demonstratives, indexicals and the term 'actually' appear.) Rather than defending the view outright, I take the preliminary step of assessing the position in order to determine its viability. I first sketch the outline of a generic semantical system in which the conventionalist thesis can be formulated. Second, I show that this system can be used to evaluate, and deliver the right results for, both de dicto and de re sentences without succumbing to circularity; and that it can provide a univocal treatment quantification in both modal and non-modal contexts. I show how this semantic treatment of 'necessarily' can be integrated into a Davidsonian compositional meaning theory.

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