Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Mark Steiner and Robert C. Stalnaker

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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'Descriptive' semantics gives a system for a language; 'foundational' semantics give underlying facts [Stalnaker]

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We still lack an agreed semantics for quantifiers in natural language [Stalnaker]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

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To understand an utterance, you must understand what the world would be like if it is true [Stalnaker]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

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Extensional semantics has individuals and sets; modal semantics has intensions, functions of world to extension [Stalnaker]

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Possible world semantics may not reduce modality, but it can explain it [Stalnaker]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Two-D says that a posteriori is primary and contingent, and the necessity is the secondary intension [Stalnaker]

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In one view, the secondary intension is metasemantic, about how the thinker relates to the content [Stalnaker]