Variations on a Montagovian theme

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  • Wolfgang Schwarz
چکیده

What are the objects of knowledge, belief, probability, apriority or analyticity? For at least some of these properties, it seems plausible that the objects are sentences, or sentence-like entities. However, results from mathematical logic indicate that sentential properties are subject to severe formal limitations. After surveying these results, I argue that they are more problematic than often assumed, that they can be avoided by taking the objects of the relevant property to be coarse-grained (“sets of worlds”) propositions, and that all this has little to do with the choice between operators and predicates.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Synthese

دوره 190  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013