Vivid attitudes: Centered situations in the semantics of remember and imagine  

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Kubota, Yusuke

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Vancouver, British Colombia, April 29 - May 1, 2010, page 147-160.
Topik: semantics-english; imagine; remember; propositional attitudes; direct perception reports; centered worlds; situation semantics
Fulltext: 147-160.pdf (164.81KB)

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This paper deals with a subset of uses of propositional attitude predicates such as remember and imagine. I argue that these have a distinct vivid reading, which requires direct witnessing or sensory perception similar to that required in direct perception reports. To account for this use, I introduce a notion of centered situations, combining situations in the sense of Kratzer 1989 with centered worlds in the sense of Lewis 1979 and others. I propose that, on their vivid uses, these predicates make reference to a (real or possible) centered situation. This makes it possible in particular to account for attitude reports that are simultaneously vivid and obligatorily de se.

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