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| Attitude-semantics: the attitude-semantics deals with sentences attributing propositional attitudes, e.g. Elmar believes the president has lied. See also de re, de dicto, opacity, intensions, quantification, propositions, propositional attitudes, tautologies, acquaintance, truth conditions._____________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 Attitude-Semantics - Dictionary of Arguments
I 64 Attitude Semantics/VsPossible World Semantics/Semantics of Possible Worlds/BarwiseVsCresswell: there are often two propositions, one of which is believed by the person, yet the other one is not, but still both are true in the same possible world. >Pierre eyample. Cresswell: E.g. all logical and mathematical truths. But they are not all known, otherwise there could be no progress. >Logical omniscience. I 65 CresswellVsSituation Semantics: the situations are to play roles that cannot be played simultaneously. Solution: possible world semantics: the roles are played by entities of various kinds. >Semantics of possible worlds. Solution: context with space-time indication - incorrect sentences: describe non-actual situations. >Situations, >Situation Semantics. I 66 Sentences describe situations in a context. - The context is itself a situation that provides the listener with time, place, etc. >Context. Interpretation/Barwise: meaning of sentences in context. >Intepretation, >Barwise/Perry._____________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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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2023-06-04