Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds

Counterfactual attitudes like imagining, dreaming, and wishing create a problem for the standard formal semantic theory of de re attitude ascriptions. I show how the problem can be avoided if we represent an agent's attitudinal possibilities using "multi-centered worlds", possible wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dilip Ninan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2012-08-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2815