Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds  

Oleh:

Ninan, Dilip

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Semantics & Pragmatics (Fulltext) vol. 5 no. 1 (2012), page 1-57.
Topik: de se attitudes; de re attitudes; counterfactual attitudes; pronouns; proper names; presupposition
Fulltext: Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds.pdf (294.05KB)

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Counterfactual attitudes like imagining, dreaming, and wishing create a problem for the standard formal semantic theory of de re attitude ascriptions. I show how the problem can be avoided if we represent an agent's attitudinal possibilities using "multi-centered worlds", possible worlds with multiple distinguished individuals, each of which represents an individual with whom the agent is acquainted. I then present a compositional semantics for de re ascriptions according to which singular terms are "assignment-sensitive" expressions and attitude verbs are "assignment shifters".

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