Only the Strong: Restricting Situation Variables

Keshet, Ezra

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“…But note that these problems only arise if we do indeed assume that all predicates (can) combine with a situation pronoun. One possible variation of this type of account, proposed by Keshet (2008c) and Schwarz (2012), is that situation pronouns have a more restricted distribution and only are introduced as arguments of strong determiners. This accounts for the generalizations considered above.…”

Section: Constraints On De Re Readings 14mentioning

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De Re/De Dicto

Keshet¹,

Schwarz

2019

The Oxford Handbook of Reference

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The de re/de dicto distinction describes the interaction of intensional operators and noun phrases in a sentence. The classic example ‘I want a sloop’ due to Quine (1956) contrasts two readings: a desire for a particular sloop (de re) and ‘relief from slooplessness’ (de dicto). The distinction is commonly discussed in connection with modal expressions, often construed as quantifiers over possible worlds, but entirely parallel phenomena arise for tenses, construed as quantifiers over times, and situations, combining possible worlds and time spans. This chapter provides a brief historical background of the de re/de dicto distinction and then lays out the basics of a traditional analysis in terms of scope. Next, challenges to such a theory are reviewed, as well as possible revisions to capture this problematic data. The last part of the chapter notes some loose ends and possible extensions.

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Section: Constraints On De Re Readings 14mentioning

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De Re/De Dicto

Keshet¹,

Schwarz

2019

The Oxford Handbook of Reference

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“…11 For recent work on world/situation variables in natural language syntax, see Keshet [2008Keshet [ , 2010, Schwarz [2012].…”

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Semantics as Model-Based Science

Yalcin¹

2018

The Science of Meaning

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This chapter critiques a number of standard ways of understanding the role of the metalanguage in a semantic theory for natural language, including the idea that disquotation plays a nontrivial role in any explanatory natural language semantics. It then proposes that the best way to understand the role of a semantic metalanguage involves recognizing that semantics is a model-based science. The metalanguage of semantics is language for articulating features of the theorist’s model. Models are understood as mediating instruments—idealized structures used to represent select aspects of the world, aspects the theorist is seeking some theoretical understanding of. The aspect of reality we are seeking some understanding of in semantics is a dimension of human linguistic competence—informally, knowledge of meaning.

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“…Work on dynamic approaches to counterfactuals by von Fintel (2001), Veltman (2005), Asher and McCready (2007), Gillies (2007), and Moss (2012) will be relevant here. We will likely need to enrich our modeling language with world or situation variables; here Keshet (2008b) and Schwarz (2012) make key advances. Further, a dynamic account of definite descriptions in interaction with counterfactual contexts will need to reckon with the facts discussed by Rothschild (2007).…”

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Epistemic Modality De Re

Yalcin¹

2015

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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Focusing on cases which involve binding into epistemic modals with definite descriptions and quantifiers, I raise some new problems for standard approaches to all of these expressions. The difficulties are resolved in a semantic framework that is dynamic in character. I close with a new class of problems about de re readings within the scope of modals. 1. Or so it seems. Another possible analysis (the in-scope de re analysis) is discussed in Section 12 below.

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Only the Strong: Restricting Situation Variables

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