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| Paratactic analysis, philosophy: the attempt to analyze a compound sentence by juxtaposing the complete sentences derived from it. E.g. the earth rotates. Galileo said that. With this, problems with the attribution of propositional attitudes or indirect speech should be avoided. See also propositions, propositional attitudes, quotation, opacity, all that he said is true._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Maxwell J. Cresswell on Paratactic Analysis - Dictionary of Arguments
II 137 Paratactic Analysis/Propositional Attitude/Davidson/Cresswell: here there is no attitude sentence - we need instead a semantics for demonstratives. >Demonstratives, >Propositional attitudes. II 161 Paratactic Analysis/ArnaudVsDavidson/Cresswell: (Arnaud 1976)(1): a sentence like E.g. "What Galileo said, namely, that the earth moves, is true," involves reference to a language as well as reference to synonymy. >Language dependence, >Synonymy. 1. Richard B. Arnaud (1976).entence, Uttarance, and Samesayer Nous No. 10. (pp. 283-304)._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Cr I M. J. Cresswell Semantical Essays (Possible worlds and their rivals) Dordrecht Boston 1988 Cr II M. J. Cresswell Structured Meanings Cambridge Mass. 1984 |
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