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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"truth-conditions"”.
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A defense of the ambiguity theory of 'knows'
<p>In recent years, questions regarding the truth conditions of knowledge ascriptions (sentences of the form ‘S knows that P’ where S is a subject and P a proposition) and knowledge denials (sentences of the form ‘S doesn’t know that P’) have been at the fore of a certain sector of analytic …
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Probabilistic semantics for vagueness
In this dissertation I argue that truth-conditional semantics for vague predicates, combined with a Bayesian account of statistical inference incorporating knowledge of truth-conditions of utterances, generates false predictions regarding negations and metalinguistic inference. I thus propose a …
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Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
… metaphysical modality according to which modal truth is determined by conventional rules governing the terms in a natural language. I label this theory ‘linguistic modal conventionalism’, or ‘LMC’. My focus is on articulating and responding to a specific objection to LMC: the objection that …
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Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
… metaphysical modality according to which modal truth is determined by conventional rules governing the terms in a natural language. I label this theory ‘linguistic modal conventionalism’, or ‘LMC’. My focus is on articulating and responding to a specific objection to LMC: the objection that …
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Movement out of focus
… in their scope. I document the complex conditions under which operators are able to associate with a focused constituent which has moved out of their scope. In particular, I concentrate on the ability of English even but not only to associate "backwards" in this configuration. I propose …
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Cumulativity from Homogeneity
… famous video-game examples. It also predicts the truth-conditions of negative cumulative sentences and asymmetries in the availability of cumulative readings of quantifiers.
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Counterfactuals in Context: Felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names
This thesis provides felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names in which essential changes to an individual are counterfactually posited using contrastive focus in either the antecedent or consequent clause. The felicity conditions proposed are an adaptation of …
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Truth in sentential structure: a critical analysis of standard semantic accounts of context sensitivity
… of sentences of natural languages encode truth-conditions. The question I pursue is whether truth-conditional semantic theories are capable of accounting for the various ways in which contextual factors contribute to the determination of the truth-conditional content of sentences. The …
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Contextual Knowledge Ascriptions and Non-Contextual Knowledge
… order to sustain the pairing that I suggest, the truth conditions of a knowledge ascription must be distinct from the criteria for knowledge. I believe that this distinction is important and fruitful for two reasons: 1) the distinction allows us to preserve both the principle that knowledge is …
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MORAL REALISM
… true, The effort has been to show in what this truth consists in. Moral realists argue that ethics is or can be cognitivist and objectivist in nature. They point to a distinctive moral reality which provides the truth-conditions for well-formed, meaningful ethical claims. Two versions of moral …
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Rationality without representation
… representational-that they have, in the jargon, truth-conditions. I use this to provide a solution to the 'negation problem' for metaethical expressivism. In Chapter 2 ('Structuring logical space') I sketch an account of mathematical practice along non-representational lines. I show how it can do …
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Second Order Logic and Logical Form
… these rival systems various first order logical truths do not hold. The failure of the Law of the Excluded Middle in intuitionistic systems is the most common example. The other alternatives to first order logic accept it as a part of the truth, but extend it by adding new logical constants. Some …
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Deflating Deflationism
… take a close look at the deflationary theory of truth, and deflationary semantics, generally. My thesis is that, as a theory about the nature and function of the property of truth, deflationism is well supported. However, deflationary semantics, which combines deflationism about truth with …
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Constraining credences
… on which counterfactuals have substantive truth conditions, such as the variably strict conditional semantic theories given in STALNAKER 1968 and LEWIS 1973a. In particular, I demonstrate that given plausible assumptions, norms governing our credences about objective chances entail …
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Descriptions as restricted free variables
… a longstanding debate over the desired de dicto truth conditions in non-doxastic attitude reports involving definite and indefinite descriptions. I show that my view can achieve the correct readings for both indefinites and definites and that my treatment of indefinites is superior to that of …
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The Rational Significance of Desire
… understood as content that displays doability-conditions rather than truth-conditions. Moreover, I hold that an attitude may provide reasons only if it has truth-evaluable content. Insofar as desires lack truth-evaluable content, I hold that the content of a desire has the wrong kind of logical …
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Essence and Ontology
… It is reductive, in the sense that it provides truth-conditions for essentialist claims without in turn relying on any fundamental notions of an entity's `nature' or `identity'; nor does it rely on any concepts of metaphysical modality. Instead, it is based on a framework of sets, attributes, …
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Ontology and the foundations of mathematics
… than up to isomorphism. We argue that the truth conditions of a variety of numerical modal and counterfactual sentences (whose acceptance plays a crucial role in applications) place serious constraints on the sorts of items to which numerals, as we ordinarily use them, can be taken to …
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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
… do not require assessment sensitivity are given truth conditions according to those given for monadic truth in Lasersohn 2015. The interaction of readings with their grammatical distribution provides additional theoretical insights into the linguistic contexts that are conducive to assessment …
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Epistemological implications of representational pluralism
… problem, has consisted in determining the truth conditions for attributions of knowledge and justified beliefs. To determine these truth conditions, epistemologists develop thought experiments designed to elicit our semantic intuitions regarding the use of “knowledge,” “justified belief,” …