TY - BOOK AU - Forbes, Graeme TI - Attitude problems: an essay on llinguistic intensionality SN - 01992274940 U1 - 152.4 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, PB - Clarendon N1 - 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 ER -