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From contexts to circumstances of evaluation: is the trade-off always innocuous?
- Source :
- Synthese; Jan2012, Vol. 184 Issue 2, p199-216, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Both context relativists and circumstance-of-evaluation relativists agree that the traditional semantic interpretation of some sentence-types fails to deliver the adequate truth-conditions for the corresponding tokens. But while the context relativists argue that the truth-conditions of each token depend on its context of utterance-each token being thus associated with a distinct intension-circumstance-of-evaluation relativists preserve a unique intension for all the tokens by placing circumstances of evaluations under the influence of a certain 'point of view'. The main difference between the two approaches is that only the former can operate locally. It is shown that, for this reason, circumstance-of-evaluation relativism makes erroneous semantic predictions about (relative) gradable adjectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00397857
- Volume :
- 184
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Synthese
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 69601056
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-010-9732-4