Objects and attitudes /
"Objects and Attitudes develops a radically novel semantics of attitude reports, modal sentences, and quotation based on an ontology of attitudinal, modal, and phatic objects, entities such as claims, thoughts, intentions, desires, requests, utterances, as well as needs, obligations, permission...
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Problems for propositions and issues for the semantics of modals : a new approach to the semantics of attitude reports and modal sentences
- The ontology of attitudinal and modal objects
- Object-based truthmaker semantics, norms of truth, and direction of fit
- Object-based truthmaker semantics for modals
- The syntax and semantics of basic attitude reports
- Levels of linguistic acts and the semantics of saying and quoting
- Clauses in functions other than as predicates of modal and attitudinal objects.