Bounded meaning : the dynamics of interpretation / Matthew Mandelkern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandelkern, Matthew, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics (Philosophy).

Interpretation (Philosophy).

Modality (Linguistics).

Anaphora (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Conditionals.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Bounded Meaning' develops a new theory of how and why semantic interpretation depends not just on global information, but also on local information. Mandelkern provides criticisms of the dominant theory, dynamic semantics, and proposes a new theory of bounds as limits on admissible interpretations of an expression.

Contents:

Cover

Bounded Meaning: The Dynamics of Interpretation

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Guide to the Book

1: Introduction

1.1 Presupposition

1.1.1 Local Satisfaction

1.1.2 Dynamic Semantics

1.2 Modals

1.3 Conditionals

1.4 Anaphora

1.5 In Sum

Part I: Modals and Conditionals

2: The Dynamics of Modality

2.1 The Relational Semantics

2.2 There's Something Dynamic about Epistemic Modality

2.3 Incoherence

2.3.1 Supposition

2.3.2 Other Attitudes

2.3.3 Conditionals

2.3.4 Disjunction

2.3.5 Quantifiers

2.4 Dynamic Epistemic Modality

2.4.1 Regularities

2.4.2 Incoherence

3: The Dynamics of Conditionals

3.1 A Static Conditional

3.2 Indicative Compatibility

3.2.1 Attitudes

3.2.2 Conditionals

3.2.3 Disjunction

3.2.4 Quantifiers

3.2.5 Dismissing the Patterns

3.2.6 Dynamic Compatibility

3.3 Or-to-if

3.3.1 Attitudes

3.3.2 Conditionals

3.3.3 Quantifiers

3.3.4 Local Or-to-if

3.4 The Dynamic Conditional

3.5 The Restrictor Theory

4: Against Dynamic Semantics

4.1 Logic

4.1.1 Non-Contradiction and Excluded Middle

4.1.2 Epistemic Non-Contradiction

4.1.3 Identity

4.1.4 Eliminating Idempotence

4.1.5 Extending the Case

4.2 Order

4.2.1 Modals

4.2.2 Conditionals

4.2.3 Symmetric Dynamic Theories

4.2.4 Order and Salience

4.3 Pragmatics

4.3.1 Update Effect of Modals

4.4 In Sum

5: Bounded Modals and Conditionals

5.1 Architecture

5.2 Locality Bounds

5.2.1 Modal Locality

5.2.2 Conditional Locality

5.3 Alternatives

5.4 In Sum

Part II: Conditionals: Reasoning and Probability

6: Reasoning with Conditionals

6.1 Conditional Excluded Middle

6.2 Modus Ponens and Import-Export

6.3 Modus Ponens

6.3.1 Indicative Modus Ponens

6.3.2 The Subjunctive.

6.3.3 Subjunctive Modus Ponens

6.4 Import-Export

6.4.1 Flattening and Lifting

6.4.2 Validating Flattening

6.4.3 Indicative Lifting

6.4.4 Subjunctive Lifting

6.5 Disjunctive Syllogism and Co.

6.6 Intra-Sentential Context Shifts

6.7 Bounded Superentailment

6.7.1 Underdetermination

6.7.2 Supertruth and Superentailment

6.7.3 Modus Ponens

6.7.4 Lifting

6.7.5 Informational Superentailment

6.7.6 Supervalidity

6.8 In Sum

7: Probabilities of Conditionals

7.1 The Framework

7.2 Modus Ponens

7.3 Import-Export

7.4 Simple Conditionals

7.4.1 The Thesish

7.4.2 Non-Conforming Judgments

7.4.3 Beyond Partitions

7.4.4 Updating

7.4.5 The Subjunctive Thesish

7.5 Indicatives vs. Subjunctives

7.6 Probability Operators

7.7 Conclusion

Part III: Anaphora

8: The Dynamics of Anaphora

8.1 Anaphora

8.1.1 Partee Pairs

8.1.2 Donkey Quantifiers

8.1.3 E-Type Theories

8.2 Dynamic Semantics for (In)definites

8.2.1 Dynamic (In)definites

8.2.2 Quantifiers

8.3 Negation and Disjunction

8.3.1 Negation

8.3.2 Double Negation

8.3.3 Disjunction

8.4 Logic, Again

9: Bounded Anaphora

9.1 A Trivalent Treatment of Anaphora

9.1.1 Negation

9.1.2 Disjunction

9.2 Witnesses

9.2.1 Truth and Falsity

9.2.2 The Witness Bound

9.2.3 The Familiarity Bound

9.2.4 Updating

9.3 Projection

9.4 Open Scope of Indefinites

9.5 Negation and Disjunction

9.6 Quantification

9.7 Familiarity vs. Uniqueness

9.8 Conclusion

10: Quantification and Subordination

10.1 Modal Subordination

10.1.1 Individual Concepts

10.1.2 Attitudes

10.1.3 Modals

10.2 Quantificational Subordination

10.2.1 Domain Restriction

10.2.2 Quantification

10.3 Adverbs of Quantification

10.4 Quantified Wittgenstein Sentences

10.5 Conclusion.

Part IV: Concluding

11: Local Contexts

11.1 Order

11.2 The Explanatory Problem

12: Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 19, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-196634-7

0-19-269712-9

OCLC:

1446568870