Semantics and the objects of assertion

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 33 - Trang 355-380 - 2011
Dilip Ninan1
1Arché, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK

Tóm tắt

This paper is about the relationship between two questions: the question of what the objects of assertion are and the question of how best to theorise about ‘shifty’ phenomena like modality and tense. I argue that the relationship between these two questions is less direct than is often supposed. I then explore the consequences of this for a number of debates in the philosophy of language.

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