Attitude problems: an essay on llinguistic intensionality/ Graeme Forbes

By: Forbes, GraemeMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford, Clarendon, 2006Description: xi, 194 pISBN: 01992274940DDC classification: 152.4
Contents:
Chapter i: Compositionality 1. The age of the universe 2. Extensionalism 3. Problems for extensionalism 4. Intensionalism 5. Beyond intensionality 6. Hyperintensional logic Chapter 2: A Brief Guide to Type Theory 1. Extensional type-theory 1.1 Intransitive verbs 1.2 Transitive verbs 1.3 Binary truth-functions 1.4 Common nouns and adjectives 1.5 Quantified noun phrases 1.6 The lambda operator 1.7 Type shifting and systematic ambiguity ... 1.8 Interpretations of 2. Hyperintensional semantics Chapter 3; Intensional Transitives 1. A taxonomy of intensional "transitives" 2. Relational versus notional readings 3. Existence-independence 4. Non-relational, anti-relational, notional Chapter 4: Propositionalism 1. The Quinean strategy 2. Verbs of requirement and desire 3. Search verbs 4. Depiction verbs 5. Verbs of evaluation 6. Conclusion Chapter 5: Quantifiers and Characterization 1. Quantifiers as arguments 2. Event semantics for action verbs 3. IT V s as predicates of events or states 4. The notional as non-thematic 5. Deriving interpretations Chapter 6: Unspecificity and Inference 1. Simplification 2. Weakening 3. The disjunction problem 4. Outcome postulates 5. Possibility as conceivability 6. A theory of conjunctive force 7. Characterization by compound qnp s 8. Compound complements with singular terms .., 9. Applying the postulates 10. The serendipity problem 11. Negative quantifiers Chapter 7: Verbs of Creation and Depiction 1. Parsons' theory. 2. Characterizing processes of creation 3. Verbs of depiction 4 Depiction verbs and the definiteness effect 5. The pure inventory account Chapter 8: Substitutivity 1. Substitution and side-effects 2. so-called' 3. as such' 4. Opacity and unspecificity together... 5. Simple sentences
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Chapter i: Compositionality
1. The age of the universe
2. Extensionalism
3. Problems for extensionalism
4. Intensionalism
5. Beyond intensionality
6. Hyperintensional logic
Chapter 2: A Brief Guide to Type Theory
1. Extensional type-theory
1.1 Intransitive verbs
1.2 Transitive verbs
1.3 Binary truth-functions
1.4 Common nouns and adjectives
1.5 Quantified noun phrases
1.6 The lambda operator
1.7 Type shifting and systematic ambiguity ...
1.8 Interpretations of
2. Hyperintensional semantics
Chapter 3; Intensional Transitives
1. A taxonomy of intensional "transitives"
2. Relational versus notional readings
3. Existence-independence
4. Non-relational, anti-relational, notional
Chapter 4: Propositionalism
1. The Quinean strategy
2. Verbs of requirement and desire
3. Search verbs
4. Depiction verbs
5. Verbs of evaluation
6. Conclusion
Chapter 5: Quantifiers and Characterization
1. Quantifiers as arguments
2. Event semantics for action verbs
3. IT V s as predicates of events or states
4. The notional as non-thematic
5. Deriving interpretations
Chapter 6: Unspecificity and Inference
1. Simplification
2. Weakening
3. The disjunction problem
4. Outcome postulates
5. Possibility as conceivability
6. A theory of conjunctive force
7. Characterization by compound qnp s
8. Compound complements with singular terms ..,
9. Applying the postulates
10. The serendipity problem
11. Negative quantifiers
Chapter 7: Verbs of Creation and Depiction
1. Parsons' theory.
2. Characterizing processes of creation
3. Verbs of depiction
4 Depiction verbs and the definiteness effect
5. The pure inventory account
Chapter 8: Substitutivity
1. Substitution and side-effects
2. so-called'
3. as such'
4. Opacity and unspecificity together...
5. Simple sentences

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