Variations on a Montagovian theme

Wolfgang Schwarz*

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    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)3377-3395
    Number of pages19
    JournalSynthese
    Volume190
    Issue number16
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 2013

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