Semantical Essays Possible Worlds and their Rivals
Over a longer period than I sometimes care to contemplate I have worked on possible-worlds semantics. The earliest work was in modal logic, to which I keep returning, but a sabbatical in 1970 took me to UCLA, there to discover the work of Richard Montague in applying possible-worlds semantics to nat...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I Possible Worlds: Introduction
- 1 Possible Worlds
- 2 Semantic Competence
- 3 Semantics and Logic
- 4 Physical Theories and Possible Worlds
- II Situations and Attitudes: Introduction
- 5 The World Situation (It’s a small world after all)
- 6 Quotational Theories of Propositional Attitudes
- 7 More about Inscriptionalism
- III Quantification and Reference: Introduction
- 8 Identity and Intensional Objects
- 9 The Greek-Turkish Imbroglio (Do we need game-theoretical semantics?)
- 10 Some Recent Theories of Anaphora