Confessions of a schmentencite
Towards an Explicit Semantics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5804378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Schaffer (0009-0003-6340-8353, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 593-623 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-174X • E-ISSN: 1502-3923 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0020174x.2018.1491326 |
| OpenAlex | W2810972530 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 48 |
Natural language semantics is heir to two formalisms. There is the extensional machinery of explicit variables traditionally used to model reference to individuals, and the intensional machinery of implicit index parameters traditionally used to model reference to worlds and times. I propose instead a simple and unified extensional formalism - explicit semantics - on which all sentences include explicit individual, world and time variables. No implicit index parameters are needed
Formalism (music · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Topic Modeling
Tense, Attitudes, and Scope
The Nature and Structure of Content
Perspectival Thought
Relativism and Monadic Truth
Knowledge and Practical Interests
Adverbs and Functional Heads
Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content
Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste
Some Structural Analogies between Tenses and Pronouns in English
Nominal and temporal anaphora
The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English
On Quantifier Domain Restriction
Context and Logical Form
Epistemic Modals in Context
Constraints on Some Other Variables in Syntax
Xiv*-Making Sense of Relative Truth
Generalized quantifiers and natural language
More Structural Analogies Between Pronouns and Tenses
Index, Context, and Content
The World-Time Parallel
Temporalism and eternalism
To the memory of Arthur Prior Formal properties of ‘now’
Universal grammar
Tense, Modality, and Semantic Values
Semantics in Generative Grammar
Necessitarian propositions
Nonindexical contextualism
General semantics
Pragmatics
Semantics and truth relative to a world
Truth Without Objectivity
On the Quantification over Times in Natural Language
Future Contingents and Relative Truth
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |