I Do Not Exist. Problems for Dynamic Semantics
| Autor: | Eduardo García Ramírez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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accommodation
Negative existential constructions what is said Programming language Semantics (computer science) Computer science Common ground Context (language use) computer.software_genre presuppositions Philosophy TheoryofComputation_LOGICSANDMEANINGSOFPROGRAMS Filosofía correction computer Indexicality Sentence Scope (computer science) Utterance Counterexample |
| Zdroj: | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM Redalyc-UNAM Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía (México) Num.56 |
| ISSN: | 2007-8498 0188-6649 |
| DOI: | 10.21555/top.v0i56.1012 |
| Popis: | According to dynamic semantics , what is said by an utterance of a sentence is determined by how the common ground is affected by the acceptance of such utterance. It has been claimed that dynamic semantics offers an account of what is said by an utterance in a context that excels that of traditional static semantics . Assertions of negative existential constructions, of the form ‘X does not exist’, are a case in point. These assertions traditionally pose a problem for philosophers of language. A recent proposal, owed to Clapp (2008), argues that static semantics is unable to solve the problem and offers a dynamic semantics account that promises to succeed. In this paper I want to challenge this account and, more generally, the scope of the dynamic semantics framework. I will offer a counterexample, inspired by “answering machine” uses of indexical and demonstrative expressions, to show how dynamic semantics fails. I conclude by considering the merits of both static and dynamic accounts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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