The pragmatics of truth functions.

2 Part 1 Truth - Conditional Pragmatics

Future-Time Reference in Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

In capturing future-time reference, semantic theory such as DRT (Kamp & Reyle 1993) relies on the representation of tense and hence has a difficulty with reconciling the reference of the temporal adverbial and the tense in (3) and (4). In order to capture the futurity of ‘plays’ and ‘is playing’ (traditionally called ‘tenseless future’ and ‘futurative progressive’ respectively), I propose to us...

Is There a Place for Truth-Conditional Pragmatics?

Truth-Conditional Pragmatics is the view that the meaning of the sentence in an utterance does not alone yield a truth-conditional content (even after disambiguation and reference fixing); that meaning can be pragmatically supplemented in indefinitely many ways yielding indefinitely many truth conditions. Recanati urges a version of this doctrine. I argue that the prospects for the doctrine are...

Expressive Three-valued Truth Functions

The expressive truth functions of two-valued logic have all been characterized, as have the expressive unary truth functions of finitely-many-valued logic. This paper introduces some techniques for identifying expressive functions in three-valued logics. 1  We are going to explore a property of truth functions known as “expressiveness.” Before subjecting readers to the long-winded exp...

A Simple Treatment of Truth Functions

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