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Bounded meaning : the dynamics of interpretation /

"Bounded Meaning investigates the dynamics of interpretation: how and why the interpretation of the building blocks of human language is sensitive, not just to the context in which the expression is used, but also to the expression's linguistic environment--in other words, how and why inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mandelkern, Matthew (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Semantics (Philosophy)
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Modality (Linguistics)
Anaphora (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Conditionals.
Sémantique (Philosophie)
Interprétation (Philosophie)
Modalité (Linguistique)
Anaphore.
Conditionnel.
hermeneutics.
Semantics.
Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
Logic.
PHILOSOPHY.
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Bounded Meaning: The Dynamics of Interpretation
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Guide to the Book
  • 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Presupposition
  • 1.1.1 Local Satisfaction
  • 1.1.2 Dynamic Semantics
  • 1.2 Modals
  • 1.3 Conditionals
  • 1.4 Anaphora
  • 1.5 In Sum
  • Part I: Modals and Conditionals
  • 2: The Dynamics of Modality
  • 2.1 The Relational Semantics
  • 2.2 There's Something Dynamic about Epistemic Modality
  • 2.3 Incoherence
  • 2.3.1 Supposition
  • 2.3.2 Other Attitudes
  • 2.3.3 Conditionals
  • 2.3.4 Disjunction
  • 2.3.5 Quantifiers
  • 2.4 Dynamic Epistemic Modality
  • 2.4.1 Regularities
  • 2.4.2 Incoherence
  • 3: The Dynamics of Conditionals
  • 3.1 A Static Conditional
  • 3.2 Indicative Compatibility
  • 3.2.1 Attitudes
  • 3.2.2 Conditionals
  • 3.2.3 Disjunction
  • 3.2.4 Quantifiers
  • 3.2.5 Dismissing the Patterns
  • 3.2.6 Dynamic Compatibility
  • 3.3 Or-to-if
  • 3.3.1 Attitudes
  • 3.3.2 Conditionals
  • 3.3.3 Quantifiers
  • 3.3.4 Local Or-to-if
  • 3.4 The Dynamic Conditional
  • 3.5 The Restrictor Theory
  • 4: Against Dynamic Semantics
  • 4.1 Logic
  • 4.1.1 Non-Contradiction and Excluded Middle
  • 4.1.2 Epistemic Non-Contradiction
  • 4.1.3 Identity
  • 4.1.4 Eliminating Idempotence
  • 4.1.5 Extending the Case
  • 4.2 Order
  • 4.2.1 Modals
  • 4.2.2 Conditionals
  • 4.2.3 Symmetric Dynamic Theories
  • 4.2.4 Order and Salience
  • 4.3 Pragmatics
  • 4.3.1 Update Effect of Modals
  • 4.4 In Sum
  • 5: Bounded Modals and Conditionals
  • 5.1 Architecture
  • 5.2 Locality Bounds
  • 5.2.1 Modal Locality
  • 5.2.2 Conditional Locality
  • 5.3 Alternatives
  • 5.4 In Sum
  • Part II: Conditionals: Reasoning and Probability
  • 6: Reasoning with Conditionals
  • 6.1 Conditional Excluded Middle
  • 6.2 Modus Ponens and Import-Export
  • 6.3 Modus Ponens
  • 6.3.1 Indicative Modus Ponens
  • 6.3.2 The Subjunctive
  • 6.3.3 Subjunctive Modus Ponens
  • 6.4 Import-Export
  • 6.4.1 Flattening and Lifting
  • 6.4.2 Validating Flattening
  • 6.4.3 Indicative Lifting
  • 6.4.4 Subjunctive Lifting
  • 6.5 Disjunctive Syllogism and Co.
  • 6.6 Intra-Sentential Context Shifts
  • 6.7 Bounded Superentailment
  • 6.7.1 Underdetermination
  • 6.7.2 Supertruth and Superentailment
  • 6.7.3 Modus Ponens
  • 6.7.4 Lifting
  • 6.7.5 Informational Superentailment
  • 6.7.6 Supervalidity
  • 6.8 In Sum
  • 7: Probabilities of Conditionals
  • 7.1 The Framework
  • 7.2 Modus Ponens
  • 7.3 Import-Export
  • 7.4 Simple Conditionals
  • 7.4.1 The Thesish
  • 7.4.2 Non-Conforming Judgments
  • 7.4.3 Beyond Partitions
  • 7.4.4 Updating
  • 7.4.5 The Subjunctive Thesish
  • 7.5 Indicatives vs. Subjunctives
  • 7.6 Probability Operators
  • 7.7 Conclusion
  • Part III: Anaphora
  • 8: The Dynamics of Anaphora
  • 8.1 Anaphora
  • 8.1.1 Partee Pairs
  • 8.1.2 Donkey Quantifiers
  • 8.1.3 E-Type Theories
  • 8.2 Dynamic Semantics for (In)definites
  • 8.2.1 Dynamic (In)definites
  • 8.2.2 Quantifiers