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Year: 2013

Pages: 3377-3395

Series: Synthese

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Wolfgang Schwarz, "Variations on a montagovian theme", Synthese 190 (16), 2013, pp. 3377-3395.

Variations on a montagovian theme

Wolfgang Schwarz

pp. 3377-3395

in: Synthese 190 (16), 2013.

Abstract

What are the objects of knowledge, belief, probability, apriority or analyticity? For at least some of these properties, it seems plausible that the objects are sentences, or sentence-like entities. However, results from mathematical logic indicate that sentential properties are subject to severe formal limitations. After surveying these results, I argue that they are more problematic than often assumed, that they can be avoided by taking the objects of the relevant property to be coarse-grained (“sets of worlds”) propositions, and that all this has little to do with the choice between operators and predicates.

Publication details

Year: 2013

Pages: 3377-3395

Series: Synthese

Full citation:

Wolfgang Schwarz, "Variations on a montagovian theme", Synthese 190 (16), 2013, pp. 3377-3395.