Dissertation, The Australian National University (2012)
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This thesis argues for two main points concerning the philosophy of natural language semantics. Firstly, that the objects of assertion are distinct from the entities appealed to in the compositional rules of natural language semantics. Secondly, natural languages contain context-shifting operators known as "monsters". In fact, it will be shown that these theses are simply two sides of the same coin.
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| Keywords | semantics monsters variables compositionality two-dimensionalism Assertoric content propositions context-shifting variable binding Kaplan |
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