Sense and Insensibility Or Where Minimalism Meets Contextualism
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As we understand it, semantic minimalism is the view that: (i) an utterance u of a (declarative) sentence S expresses a proposition p whose constituents must all be represented by elements of S; (ii) the structure of p reflects the logical form of S,1 and (iii) if S does not contain indexical expressions, u expresses p in a FN:1 context-independent way. This last claim can be illustrated in considering:
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تاریخ انتشار 2007