Advanced Modalizing De Dicto and De Re
| Autor: | John J. Parry, John Divers |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010506 paleontology
Modality (human–computer interaction) business.industry Semantic feature De dicto and de re 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Semantics 01 natural sciences Philosophy Modal Truth value 060302 philosophy Redundancy (engineering) Artificial intelligence business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Mathematics |
| ISSN: | 0003-2638 |
| Popis: | Lewis’ (1968, 1986) analysis of modality faces a problem in that it appears to confer unintended truth values to certain modal claims about the pluriverse: e.g. ‘It is possible that there are many worlds’ is false when we expect truth. This is the problem of advanced modalizing. Divers (1999, 2002) presents a principled solution to this problem by treating modal modifiers as semantically redundant in some such cases. However, this semantic move does not deal adequately with advanced de re modal claims. Here, we motivate and detail a comprehensive semantics (a la Lewis 1968) for advanced modalizing de dicto and de re. The generalized semantic feature of the initial solution is not redundancy but absence from counterpart-theoretic translations of world-constrictions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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