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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| Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2815 |