Situations and AttitudesIn this provocative book, Barwise and Perry tackle the slippery subject of meaning, a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians. |
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... verb or a transitive verb followed by another name or pronoun . Our main example in this section will be the sentence ( 1 ) JACKIE IS BITING MOLLY . The discussion will be informal , though we include an appendix that describes an ...
... verb or a transitive verb followed by another name or pronoun . Our main example in this section will be the sentence ( 1 ) JACKIE IS BITING MOLLY . The discussion will be informal , though we include an appendix that describes an ...
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... verbs we study are related to two wider classes of verbs . First , there are those like INTENDS , WANTS , and DESIRES , which embed infinitive verb phrases , rather than sentences or sentence - like elements : JIM WANTS TO AVOID NUCLEAR ...
... verbs we study are related to two wider classes of verbs . First , there are those like INTENDS , WANTS , and DESIRES , which embed infinitive verb phrases , rather than sentences or sentence - like elements : JIM WANTS TO AVOID NUCLEAR ...
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... verbs allow both the NI complement and anaphora with respect to these complements . The Logic of NI - Perceptual ... verb SEE is the most flexible and interesting of our perception verbs . But the points we make apply by and large to ...
... verbs allow both the NI complement and anaphora with respect to these complements . The Logic of NI - Perceptual ... verb SEE is the most flexible and interesting of our perception verbs . But the points we make apply by and large to ...
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agent Aliass anchor assertions atlu attitude reports attuned believe border collie broken leg Chapter Cicero classify coe's cognitive concept conditional constraints connections constituent course of events defined definite descriptions described situation discourse situation doxastic e₁ eating an anchovy embedded sentence event-types example expression external significance fact first-order logic Folk Psychology football Frege Fregean Frenchie function Helen hungry idea indeterminates individual inner attributive interpretation involves Jackie is biting JACKIE'S BITING MOLLY Jonny linguistic meaning logically equivalent meaningful option MELANIE SAW mental mind model theory names natural language nomic noun phrases objects perception PERSIAN CAT philosophers principle problem pronouns proper class real situations refer relation resource situation role Sarah SCat semantic features semantic theory sense simple situation semantics sort speaker statement structure Suppose tense theory of meaning things tion uniformities utterance verb