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Variations on a montagovian theme

Wolfgang Schwarz

pp. 3377-3395

Abstract

What are the objects of knowledge, belief, probability, apriority or analyticity? For at least some of these properties, it seems plausible that the objects are sentences, or sentence-like entities. However, results from mathematical logic indicate that sentential properties are subject to severe formal limitations. After surveying these results, I argue that they are more problematic than often assumed, that they can be avoided by taking the objects of the relevant property to be coarse-grained (“sets of worlds”) propositions, and that all this has little to do with the choice between operators and predicates.

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Published in:

(2013) Synthese 190 (16).

Pages: 3377-3395

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0173-0

Full citation:

Schwarz Wolfgang (2013) „Variations on a montagovian theme“. Synthese 190 (16), 3377–3395.