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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 525–554.
Published: 01 October 2008
...) may also be shifted by operators in the representation language. Indeed verbs that create hyperintensional contexts, like `think', are treated as operators that simultaneously shift the world and assignment parameters. By contrast, metaphysical modal operators shift the world of assessment only. Names...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 323–369.
Published: 01 July 2018
... to such counterfactuals. In light of this, one could try to save the orthodox theories either by appealing to pragmatics or by denying that the antecedents of alleged counteridenticals really contain identity claims. Or one could reject the orthodox theory of counterfactuals in favor of a hyperintensional semantics...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2022
... to metaphysical modality; and hyperintensionality. As Williamson himself notes, there are thematic similarities between his defense of the material conditional and his work on other areas such as vagueness. His position maintains a simple semantics and logic, and the phenomena that have led many other...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 459–462.
Published: 01 July 2002
... and attitu-
dinal operators appear to be hyperintensional? It quickly emerges that
Recanati’s understanding of “innocence” is highly qualified. He does not deny
that opaquely occurring terms acquire “deviant” semantic values that block
substitutions, but he argues that this is not due to the semantic...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 251–256.
Published: 01 April 2018
... it means for life to go worse or better in virtue of a condition. In chapter 2, she characterizes “in virtue of” as “hyperintensional” (64), which suggests that it must be the feature itself, not anything associated with it, however closely, that affects well-being. In chapter 3, she states...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 143–178.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that the further independence requirement packs in implausibly strong commitments about coincidence. 21. And thus, Simple Plenitude doesn't rest on a hyperintensional conception of properties. 22. Notice that my proposed solution is not alone in relying on the details of the background metaphysics...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 359–406.
Published: 01 July 2012
... . “ Future and Non-future Modal Sentences .” Natural Language Semantics 14 , no. 3 : 235 – 55 . Williamson Timothy . 2006 . “ Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-hyperintensional Contexts .” Philosophical Issues 16 , no. 1 : 310 – 33 . Yalcin Seth...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
... matter to pick out the intended message r from a range of alternatives, Yablo tries to make hyperintensional features of the literal message p and the presupposition q do this job. The limitations of that approach come out in a case like (10), where the target dependency comes through clearly...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 307–310.
Published: 01 April 2013
... metaphysical merit. Despite what the collection’s
title would suggest, QV takes center stage in only two of the twelve essays: essays
five and ten.
QV is a dramatic claim. As Hawthorne (2009) stresses, hyperintensional
operators play a central role in contemporary metaphysical theorizing. Con-
sider...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 314–317.
Published: 01 April 2013
... metaphysical merit. Despite what the collection’s
title would suggest, QV takes center stage in only two of the twelve essays: essays
five and ten.
QV is a dramatic claim. As Hawthorne (2009) stresses, hyperintensional
operators play a central role in contemporary metaphysical theorizing. Con-
sider...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 318–322.
Published: 01 April 2013
... metaphysical merit. Despite what the collection’s
title would suggest, QV takes center stage in only two of the twelve essays: essays
five and ten.
QV is a dramatic claim. As Hawthorne (2009) stresses, hyperintensional
operators play a central role in contemporary metaphysical theorizing. Con-
sider...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 322–325.
Published: 01 April 2013
... metaphysical merit. Despite what the collection’s
title would suggest, QV takes center stage in only two of the twelve essays: essays
five and ten.
QV is a dramatic claim. As Hawthorne (2009) stresses, hyperintensional
operators play a central role in contemporary metaphysical theorizing. Con-
sider...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 325–327.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., hyperintensional
operators play a central role in contemporary metaphysical theorizing. Con-
sider, for instance, the operator “it is fundamental that.” Substituting intension-
ally equivalent expressions into such contexts can shift truth-value. Hirsh, as a
proponent of QV, must hold that such operators don’t...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 310–314.
Published: 01 April 2013
....
QV is a dramatic claim. As Hawthorne (2009) stresses, hyperintensional
operators play a central role in contemporary metaphysical theorizing. Con-
sider, for instance, the operator “it is fundamental that.” Substituting intension-
ally equivalent expressions into such contexts can shift truth...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 307–339.
Published: 01 July 2016
... that assigns each sentence a finite set of worlds. For critical discussion see Bacon 2014, sec. 2.2 . These other results don't generally have obvious parallels for the other theses we've discussed. 20. Note that “rules out” is hyperintensional. If you're in the state S [¬ A ], which rules out...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 577–617.
Published: 01 October 2013
... , no. 3 : 117 – 42 . Williamson Timothy . 2006 . “ Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-Hyperintensional Contexts .” Philosophical Issues , no. 16 : 310 – 33 . Williamson Timothy 2009 . “ Conditionals and Actuality .” Erkenntnis 70 , no. 2...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 207–253.
Published: 01 April 2015
... not be “quantifying into” attitudes per se, but rather the possibility of de re readings of DPs that are nevertheless within the scope of intensional or hyperintensional operators. What is the relation between a compositional semantics for natural language and a theory of mental content? Theorists have...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 537–589.
Published: 01 October 2020
... as a tautology. Such propositional identities are hardly obvious, and competing hyperintensional theories of content count far less as tautologous (see, e.g., Fine 2017 or Dorr 2016 ). 32 So far we have only used the right-to-left direction of Logical Necessity. Consider Modal Freedom as formulated...
