TY - JOUR
T1 - Variations on a Montagovian theme
AU - Schwarz, Wolfgang
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Diagonalisation
KW - Knower paradox
KW - Montague
KW - Objects of attitudes
KW - Propositional attitudes
KW - Propositions
KW - Thomason
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84888136336&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11229-012-0173-0
DO - 10.1007/s11229-012-0173-0
M3 - Article
SN - 0039-7857
VL - 190
SP - 3377
EP - 3395
JO - Synthese
JF - Synthese
IS - 16
ER -