Titlebook: Essays in Logical Semantics; Johan Benthem Book 1986 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986 semantic.semantics

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DeterminersN NP ? Det N; involving the notions of .entence, .oun .hrase, .erb .rase, .roper .ame, .terminer and .ommon .oun. In what follows, we shall focus on the Noun Phrases in this scheme. Some of their parts seem to be ‘interpretatively free’, in the sense of allowing any available denotation in a model.

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All Categories be brought to bear upon arbitrary grammatical types: adjectives, connectives, adverbs, etc. To broaden our scope, we will work against the background of an extensional ., with basic types . (‘entity’) and . (‘truth value’) — as in Section 1.1. — allowing formation of functional types (., .) (‘from

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Conditionalswitness to this tendency — postponing the well-known puzzles of intensionality. Nevertheless, our investigation is not at all restricted to the extensional realm — and we shall study some central intensional notions in the next two chapters. The first topic is that of ., perhaps the principal concer

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Tense And Modalityuantifiers. But the more traditional intensional constructions are rather . on propositions, such as modality or tense. Still, given the generalization made in Chapter 3 to arbitrary extensional categories, a similar move is possible for intensional notions. Instead of pursuing this topic in its ful

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Natural Logiclogical artefacts. Thus, the ideal division of labour would come about, with the logician borrowing the linguist’s grammatical analysis in his account of inference, without having to set up his own shop for producing ‘logical forms’. Some strands in this book tend in such a direction — and we shall

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The Logic of Semanticsing which invites reflection. For, much clarity is still to be achieved as to the nature of semantic theory, explanation or evidence. One way to proceed here is by general philosophizing, much as in earlier periods. But a more concrete approach is also available at the present stage. There is room f