De re tenses and Trace Conversion

De re and De dicto Modality in Islamic Traditional Logic

De Re and De Se

1. De re thought and token-reflexivity There is an intuitive contrast between descriptive thoughts about an object (e.g. the thought that the strongest man in the world can lift 150 kilos) and 'nondescriptive' or 'de re' thoughts about an object (e.g. the thought that that man is drunk). But it is not easy to make the contrast explicit without going stipulative. The distinction between de re th...

de re and de dicto modality in islamic traditional logic

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Tenses As Anaphora

A proposal to deal with French tenses in the framework of Discourse Representation Theory is presented, as it has been implemented for a fragment at the IMS. It is based on the theory of tenses of H. Kamp and Ch. Rohrer. Instead of using operators to express the meaning of the tenses the Reichenbachian point of view is adopted and refined such that the impact of the tenses with respect to the m...

The Tenses of Verbs

A particularly important form of token-reflexive symbol is found in the tenses of verbs. The tenses determine time with reference to the time point of the act of speech, i.e., of the token uttered. A closer analysis reveals that the time indication given by the tenses is of a rather complex structure. Let us call the time point of the token the point of speech. Then the three indications, ‘befo...