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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 (2022) 131 (4): 453–497.
Published: 01 October 2022
... be abstracted from each of these systems; but existing accounts of abstraction fail for nonrigid systems like the complex numbers. The problem with the existing accounts is that they attempt to define a unique abstraction operation. The theory of collective abstraction instead simultaneously defines...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 275–287.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Graeme Forbes In this critical review I discuss the main themes of the papers in Kit Fine's Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers . These themes are that modal operators are intelligible in their own right and that actualist quantifiers are to be taken as basic with respect to possibilist...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
... give voice to our most cognitively primitive generalizations and that this hypothesis accounts for a variety of facts ranging from acquisition patterns to cross-linguistic data concerning the phonological articulation of operators. I go on to develop an account of the nature of these cognitively...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 359–406.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Paolo Santorio According to the orthodox account developed by Kaplan, indexicals like I, you , and now invariably refer to elements of the context of speech. This essay argues that the orthodoxy is wrong. I, you , and the like are shifted by certain modal operators and hence can fail to refer...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 577–617.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., as is commonly thought, just on the presence of an operator ‘actually’. This essay argues that this phenomenon provides evidence that mood admits of bound and free readings along the lines of tenses and pronouns. It therefore favors the hypothesis that natural language contains variables and quantifiers...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 537–589.
Published: 01 October 2020
... idea that fundamental properties and relations are freely recombinable and a variant of the structural idea that propositions can be decomposed into their fundamental constituents via logical operations. Indeed, it is seen that, although these ideas are seemingly distinct, they are not independent...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 241–261.
Published: 01 April 2001
... Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 : 1078 -83. McGee, V. 1996 . “Logical Operations.” Journal of Philosophical Logic 26 : 567 -80. Mostowski, A. 1957 . “On a Generalization of Quantifiers.” Fundamenta Mathematicae 44 : 12 -36. Quine, W.V. 1951 . “Two Dogmas of Empiricism...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 275–278.
Published: 01 April 2015
... to support the actual explanatory and representational practices of physics. After a masterful survey, she concludes that neither interpretation has all of the requisite resources. In particular, she argues, physicists regularly make essential use of operators that are only available to Conservatives...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 243–258.
Published: 01 April 2002
.... The core idea is that a logical term is either a sentential con-
nective that refers (rigidly) to a truth-functional operator or a term
that refers (rigidly) to an operator that is formal in the sense of being
invariant under isomorphic structures. This invariance criterion for
the formality...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (4): 540–544.
Published: 01 October 2005
... and then conceptualized in
thinking; rather, conceptual capacities are already operative in experience
itself. Another main idea concerns a resistance to the first idea: Experience is
our sensibility in operation and as such simply an occurrence in nature; thus,
conceptual capacities cannot possibly be operative...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 125–129.
Published: 01 January 2014
... is to extend the Lewisian status of naturalness “beyond the predicate,” allowing it to apply to any portion of the language, including quantificational phrases and logical connectives. Thus Sider (92) posits a primitive “structural” operator, which maps arbitrary portions of the language to truth if and only...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 267–270.
Published: 01 April 2000
... not have done otherwise.
Fischer and Ravizza observe that these examples “highlight the fact that,
as long as no responsibility-undermining factor actually operates, an agent
may be morally responsible, even though such a factor would have played
a role in the alternative scenario (and thus...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 415–448.
Published: 01 October 2006
... operators, temporal operators, ‘believes that’, or quotation). More
important for my present purpose, occurrence-based semantics illumi-
nates just what is going on when a quantifi er binds a variable. Properly
2. Hence I reject Donald Davidson’s appeal to “pre-Fregean semantic innocence...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 139–168.
Published: 01 April 2006
... themselves are false, that other laws are operative. So, even
though it is nomologically necessary that if R is dropped, then it falls,
still it is conceptually possible that it does not do so.
Correspondingly, in the case of the China-Body system, even if we
decide that it is nomically...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (1): 135–138.
Published: 01 January 2016
... phenomena to the operation of a minimal set of basic capacities. And though, as I suggested, certain elements of Aristotle's theory, and in particular his notion of psychic parthood, require closer scrutiny, Johansen's take on DA is on the whole illuminating. Lastly, from the holistic perspective...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 139–144.
Published: 01 January 2020
... operator ‘ C ’ (think: certainly ) with scope over the prejacent, yielding (1′) as the true LF of (1): (1′) It is .9 likely that C (it is raining). Now, a compositional semantics operating on (1′) must assign a numerical probability (.9) to something that is itself epistemic: ‘certainly’-claims...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 299–352.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of problems. Although revenge paradoxes of different strengths can be formulated, they are found to be indeterminate at higher orders and not inconsistent. © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 revenge paradox semantic paradox higher-order indeterminacy determinacy operators truth According...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 489–495.
Published: 01 July 2020
... indeterminate. This behavior of embedding a semantically indeterminate sentence under a probability operator is very different from how counterfactuals are supposed to work according to Schulz. For, according to his theory, counterfactuals are semantically indeterminate and yet embed felicitously under...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 173–238.
Published: 01 April 2023
... + 19 ’ are different because the former is simple, while latter is not: it contains three constituents ‘98’, ‘ + ’, and ‘19’. But the number 98 + 19 is not structured: it does not contain 98, or the operation of addition as constituents. To say otherwise would be mathematically...
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