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Counterfactuals without Possible Worlds? A Difficulty for Fine’s Exact Semantics for Counterfactuals [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper I argue that there is a difficulty for Fine's exact semantics for counterfactuals.
Embry, Brian
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The ontological argument: an “office” solution [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2013 There are two important facts that prevent the success of the so called "ontological argument": 1) the use of the concept of existence as a real predicate and 2) the confusion of de re and de dicto modalities.
Gorbatova Yu.
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De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2022 This paper discusses the semantics of so-called de re propositional attitudes. According to the standard Kaplanian analysis, the semantics of such dicta contains existential quantification over functions that map the attitude holder and the object of ...
Ekaterina V. Vostrikova, Petr S. Kusliy
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Philosophies, 2023 In this paper, I argue that David Lewis’s possible world semantics for counterfactual discourse and for fictional discourse are apparently inconsistent and in need of revision.
Andrew D. Bassford
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Counterfactuals of Ontological Dependence [PDF]
, 2020 A great deal has been written about 'would' counterfactuals of causal dependence. Comparatively little has been said regarding 'would' counterfactuals of ontological dependence.
Baron, Sam
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On ‘actually’ and ‘dthat’: Truth-Conditional Differences in Possible Worlds Semantics
Organon F, 2019 Although possible worlds semantics is a powerful tool to represent the semantic properties of natural language sentences, it has been often argued that it is too coarse: with the tools that possible worlds semantics puts at our disposal, any relevant ...
Genoveva Martí +1 more
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Clauses as Semantic Predicates: Difficulties for Possible-Worlds Semantics [PDF]
, 2020 The standard view of clauses embedded under attitude verbs or modal predicates is that they act as terms standing for propositions, a view that faces a range of philosophical and linguistic difficulties.
Moltmann, Friederike
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Cхід, 2014 The article deals with the ontology of the possible worlds in possible world semantics. Possible worlds are considered from instrumentalist point of view (according to which we have no need in regulating of the relation of possible world to actual world
Mstislav Kazakov
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Fabula Nova Obscura Est: Possible Worlds in “Final Fantasy XIII-2”
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2021 Modern narratological researches are quite well developed and has long gone beyond the purely philological field. One of the applications of narratology is the study of computer games, the most relevant new medium.
Vladislav V. Kirichenko
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Hyperfine-Grained Meanings in Classical Logic [PDF]
, 1991 This paper develops a semantics for a fragment of English that is based on the idea of `impossible possible worlds'. This idea has earlier been formulated by authors such as Montague, Cresswell, Hintikka, and Rantala, but the present set-up shows how it ...
Muskens, Reinhard
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