Gennaro Chierchia and Raymond Turner
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The nature of properties, relations and propositions has always been at the heart of philosophical debate. Among other things, they have played a central role in theories of intensionality, belief, universals and in the analysis of the attitudes. In fact, it does not seem unwarranted to claim that most of the entities that populate philosophical debates are ulti mately analyzable through constructs which crucially rely upon proper ties and propositions. The aim of this paper is to develop a theory of properties, relations and propositions which will support, in a strong sense, the semantics of natural language. By that we mean that a semantics built on such a theory of properties should mesh well with (what is known about) syntax, help explaining why predicative expressions in English and other lan guages behave the way they do, and constitute, on this score, an improvement over purely set-theoretic semantics (such as, e.g., Mon
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تاریخ انتشار 2008