De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes
This paper discusses the semantics of so-called de re propositional attitudes. According to the standard Kaplanian analysis, the semantics of such dicta contains existential quantification over functions that map the attitude holder and the object of their de re attitude to an individual concept by...
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| author | Ekaterina V. Vostrikova Petr S. Kusliy |
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| description | This paper discusses the semantics of so-called de re propositional attitudes. According to the standard Kaplanian analysis, the semantics of such dicta contains existential quantification over functions that map the attitude holder and the object of their de re attitude to an individual concept by which the attitude holder identifies the object. This existential quantification has a wider scope than the universal quantification over possible worlds that is generally associated with the semantics of attitude dicta. We explore examples of disjunctive de re attitudes and show that these dicta have truth conditions that cannot be grasped by the standard analysis. To account for them, we propose a revision of the theory of concept generators and show how the revised theory makes correct predictions.
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| spelling | doaj.art-a135af7885e1419b8c21ea0a28a873052022-12-22T04:01:51ZengImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityСлово.ру: балтийский акцент2225-53462686-89892022-08-011338310110.5922/2225-5346-2022-3-5De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudesEkaterina V. Vostrikova0Petr S. Kusliy1Interregional Non-Governmental Organization “Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science”Interregional Non-Governmental Organization “Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science”This paper discusses the semantics of so-called de re propositional attitudes. According to the standard Kaplanian analysis, the semantics of such dicta contains existential quantification over functions that map the attitude holder and the object of their de re attitude to an individual concept by which the attitude holder identifies the object. This existential quantification has a wider scope than the universal quantification over possible worlds that is generally associated with the semantics of attitude dicta. We explore examples of disjunctive de re attitudes and show that these dicta have truth conditions that cannot be grasped by the standard analysis. To account for them, we propose a revision of the theory of concept generators and show how the revised theory makes correct predictions. https://journals.kantiana.ru/slovo/5130/36749/semanticsde re attitudeconcept generatorsnatural language |
| spellingShingle | Ekaterina V. Vostrikova Petr S. Kusliy De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes Слово.ру: балтийский акцент semantics de re attitude concept generators natural language |
| title | De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes |
| title_full | De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes |
| title_fullStr | De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes |
| title_full_unstemmed | De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes |
| title_short | De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes |
| title_sort | de re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes |
| topic | semantics de re attitude concept generators natural language |
| url | https://journals.kantiana.ru/slovo/5130/36749/ |
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