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Journal articles on the topic "Truth-conditional semantics"

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Callaway, Howard G. "Semantic competence and truth-conditional semantics." Erkenntnis 28, no. 1 (January 1988): 3–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00204422.

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Clapp, Lenny. "Indexical Color Predicates: Truth Conditional Semantics vs. Truth Conditional Pragmatics." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42, no. 2 (June 2012): 71–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.2012.0009.

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Truth conditional semantics is the project of ‘determining a way of assigning truth conditions to sentences based on A) the extension of their constituents and B) their syntactic mode of combination’ (Rothschild and Segal, 2009). This research program has been subject to objections that take the form of underdetermination arguments, an influential instance of which is presented by Travis: … consider the words ‘The leaf is green,’ speaking of a given leaf, and its condition at a given time, used so as to mean what they do mean in English. How many distinct things might be said in words with all that true of them? Many.… Suppose a Japanese maple leaf, turned brown, was painted green for a decoration. In sorting leaves by colour, one might truly call this one green. In describing leaves to help identify their species, it might, for all the paint, be false to call it that.
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Nickel, Bernhard. "Saying and doing: The role of semantics in the use of generic sentences." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 57, no. 2 (July 2012): 289–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100004783.

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AbstractThis article discusses semantic theories of generic sentences that seek to tie their meaning closely to their use, rather than giving more traditional truth-conditional semantic treatments. It focuses on McConnell-Ginet’s recent work and defends truth-conditional approaches combined with a traditional semantics-pragmatics distinction.
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ASHER, N. "Truth Conditional Discourse Semantics for Parentheticals." Journal of Semantics 17, no. 1 (February 1, 2000): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/17.1.31.

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Horisk, Claire. "THE EXPRESSIVE ROLE OF TRUTH IN TRUTH-CONDITIONAL SEMANTICS." Philosophical Quarterly 57, no. 229 (October 2007): 535–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.496.x.

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Napoletano, Toby. "How important are truth-conditions for truth-conditional semantics?" Linguistics and Philosophy 42, no. 6 (April 10, 2019): 541–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-019-09261-y.

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Goldstein, Simon. "Generalized Update Semantics." Mind 128, no. 511 (February 8, 2019): 795–835. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzy076.

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Abstract This paper explores the relationship between dynamic and truth conditional semantics for epistemic modals. It provides a generalization of a standard dynamic update semantics for modals. This new semantics derives a Kripke semantics for modals and a standard dynamic semantics for modals as special cases. The semantics allows for new characterizations of a variety of principles in modal logic, including the inconsistency of ‘p and might not p’. Finally, the semantics provides a construction procedure for transforming any truth conditional semantics for modals into a dynamic semantics for modals with similar properties.
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Ogihara, Toshiyuki. "Tense and aspect in truth-conditional semantics." Lingua 117, no. 2 (February 2007): 392–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2005.01.002.

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Horisk, Claire. "The Surprise Argument for Truth-Conditional Semantics." ProtoSociology 21 (2005): 20–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/protosociology2005212.

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Gardiner, Mark Q. "Why Truth Matters for the Study of Religion: A Defense of a Truth-Conditional Semantics." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 30, no. 4-5 (October 10, 2018): 402–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341426.

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AbstractTruth-conditional semantics holds that the meaning of a linguistic expression is a function of the conditions under which it would be true. This seems to require limiting meaningfulness to linguistic phenomena for which the question of truth or falsity is relevant. Criticisms have been raised that there are vast swatches of meaningful language that are simply not truth-related, with religion representing a particularly rich and prevalent source. I argue that if the concept of truth as used in a truth-conditional semantics is understood in ways other than correspondence to fact, there are suitable reformulations of a truth-conditional semantics that may be appropriate for understanding religion. I further argue that these reformulations offer considerable methodological advantages to the scholar of religion.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Truth-conditional semantics"

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Stokke, Andreas. "Indexicality and presupposition : explorations beyond truth-conditional information." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1704.

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This thesis consists of four essays and an introduction dedicated to two main topics: indexicality and presupposition. The first essay is concerned with an alleged problem for the standard treatment of indexicals on which their linguistic meanings are functions from context to content (so-called characters). Since most indexicals have their content settled, on an occasion of use, by the speaker’s intentions, some authors have argued that this standard picture is inadequate. By demonstrating that intentions can be seen as a parameter of the kind of context that characters operate on, these arguments are rejected. In addition, it is argued that a more recent, variable-based framework is naturally interpreted as an intention-sensitive semantics. The second essay is devoted to the phenomenon of descriptive uses of indexicals on which such an expression seems to contribute, not its standard reference as determined by its character, but a property to the interpretation. An argument that singular readings of the cases in question are incoherent is shown to be incorrect, and an approach to descriptive readings is developed on which they arise from e-type uses akin to other well known cases. Further, descriptive readings of the relevant kind are seen to arise only in the presence of adverbs of quantification, and all sentences in which such an adverb takes scope over an indexical are claimed to be ambiguous between a referential and an e-type (descriptive) reading. The third essay discusses a version of the variable analysis of pronouns on which their descriptive meanings are relegated to the so-called phi-features – person, gender and number. In turn, the phi-features are here seen as triggering semantic presuppositions that place constraints on the definedness of pronouns, and ultimately of sentences in which they appear. It is argued that the descriptive information contributed by the phi-features diverges radically from presuppositional information of both semantic and pragmatic varieties on several dimensions of comparison, and instead the main role of the phi-features is seen to be that of guiding hearers’ attempts to ascertain the speaker’s intentions. The fourth essay addresses an issue concerning the treatment of presuppositions in dynamic semantics. Representing a semantic treatment of pragmatic presuppositions, the dynamic framework is shown to incorrectly regard conversational infelicity as sufficient for semantic undefinedness, given the standard way of defining truth in terms of context change. Further, it is shown that a proposal for a solution fail to make correct predictions for epistemic modals. A novel framework is developed on which context change potentials act on contexts that have more structure than the contexts usually countenanced by dynamic semantics, and it is shown that this framework derives truth from context change while making correct predictions for both presuppositions and modals.
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Dalglish, Steven Jack William. "Accepting Defeat: A Solution to Semantic Paradox with Defeasible Principles for Truth." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1597757494987204.

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Warshaw, Mark. "The cognitive challenge to the truth conditional theory of meaning /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3170238.

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Iten, Corinne. "'Non-truth-conditional' meaning, relevance and concessives." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1348747/.

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This thesis is concerned with the semantic function of linguistic elements which do not seem to contribute to the truth conditions of an utterance, that is, with 'non-truth-conditional' linguistic devices. The first part of the thesis is devoted to theoretical considerations, while the second part concentrates on 'concessive' linguistic devices, which form a sub-class of 'non-truth-conditional' expressions. The first chapter outlines the way in which traditional semantic theories have employed the notion of truth conditions to capture linguistic meaning and a series of problems with this approach are pointed out. The chapter ends with an overview of 'non-truth-conditional' linguistic devices. Chapter 2 is concerned with ways in which fundamentally truth-conditional theories of linguistic semantics have attempted to accommodate such expressions in their frameworks. In chapter 3, the discussion focuses on Argumentation Theory, which does not just accommodate non-truth-conditional meaning but, ultimately, treats all linguistic meaning in non-truth-conditional terms and leads to the untenable conclusion that the general intuition that utterances can give information about the world is an illusion. This is followed by a chapter devoted to Sperber & Wilson's cognitive Relevance Theory. It is argued that this theory offers an ideal framework for a semantic analysis of 'truth-conditional' and 'non-truth-conditional' expressions alike, while avoiding the problems encountered by other theories. The next three chapters investigate the nature of linguistic 'concessivity' and provide a critical survey of existing analyses of three specific 'concessive' devices: but, although, and even if. In each case, an original relevance-theoretic analysis in procedural terms is proposed. In the last chapter, the possibility of purely pragmatic (that is, unencoded) 'concessive' interpretations is explored, and, finally, the role of the concept of 'truth-conditional content' in a theory of utterance interpretation is reassessed.
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Books on the topic "Truth-conditional semantics"

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Sequeiros, Xosé Rosales. Non-truth-conditional semantics in Spanish: Conceptual and procedural meaning. München: Lincom Europa, 2007.

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Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Quotation and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics (Modern Revivals in Philosophy). Ashgate Publishing, 1991.

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Carston, Robyn. Pragmatics and Semantics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.19.

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A cognitive-scientific approach to the pragmatic interpretive ability is presented, according to which it is seen as a specific cognitive system dedicated to the interpretation of ostensive stimuli, that is, verbal utterances and other overtly communicative acts. This approach calls for a dual construal of semantics. The semantics which interfaces with the pragmatic interpretive system is not a matter of truth-conditional content, but of whatever components of meaning (lexical and syntactic) are encoded by the language system (independent of any particular use of the system by speakers in specific contexts). This linguistically provided meaning functions as evidence that guides and constrains the addressee’s pragmatic inferential processes whose goal is the recovery of the speaker’s intended meaning. Speakers communicate thoughts (explicatures and implicatures)—that is, fully propositional (truth-evaluable) entities—and it is these that are the proper domain of a truth-conditional (referential) semantics.
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Boisvert, Daniel, and Kirk Ludwig. Semantics for Nondeclaratives. Edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199552238.003.0034.

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This article begins by distinguishing force and mood. Then it lays out desiderata on a successful account. It sketches as background the program of truth-theoretic semantics. Next, it surveys assimilation approaches and argues that they are inadequate. Then it shows how the fulfillment-conditional approach can be applied to imperatives, interrogatives, molecular sentences containing them, and quantification into mood markers. Next, it considers briefly the recent set of propositions approach to the semantics of interrogatives and exclamatives. Finally, it shows how to integrate exclamatives and optatives into a framework similar to the fulfillment approach.
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Pickel, Bryan, Brian Rabern, and Josh Dever. Reviving the Parameter Revolution in Semantics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739548.003.0005.

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Montague and Kaplan began a revolution in semantics, which promised to explain how a univocal expression could make distinct truth-conditional contributions in its various occurrences. The idea was to treat context as a parameter at which a sentence is semantically evaluated. But the revolution has stalled. One salient problem comes from recurring demonstratives: “He is tall and he is not tall”. For the sentence to be true at a context, each occurrence of the demonstrative must make a different truth-conditional contribution. But this difference cannot be accounted for by standard parameter sensitivity. Semanticists, consoled by the thought that this ambiguity would ultimately be needed anyhow to explain anaphora, have been too content to posit massive ambiguities in demonstrative pronouns. This chapter aims to revived the parameter revolution by showing how to treat demonstrative pronouns as univocal while providing an account of anaphora that doesn’t end up re-introducing the ambiguity.
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Lewis, Karen. Dynamic Semantics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935314.013.14.

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This article focuses on foundational issues in dynamic and static semantics, specifically on what is conceptually at stake between the dynamic framework and the truth-conditional framework, and consequently what kinds of evidence support each framework. The article examines two questions. First, it explores the consequences of taking the proposition as central semantic notion as characteristic of static semantics, and argues that this is not as limiting in accounting for discourse dynamics as many think. Specifically, it explores what it means for a static semantics to incorporate the notion of context change potential in a dynamic pragmatics and denies that this conception of static semantics requires that all updates to the context be eliminative and distributive. Second, it argues that the central difference between the two frameworks is whether semantics or pragmatics accounts for dynamics, and explores what this means for the oft-heard claim that dynamic semantics blurs the semantics/pragmatics distinction.
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Moss, Sarah. Indicative conditionals. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792154.003.0004.

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This chapter defends a probabilistic semantics for indicative conditionals and other logical operators. This semantics is motivated in part by the observation that indicative conditionals are context sensitive, and that there are contexts in which the probability of a conditional does not match the conditional probability of its consequent given its antecedent. For example, there are contexts in which you believe the content of ‘it is probable that if Jill jumps from this building, she will die’ without having high conditional credence that Jill will die if she jumps. This observation is at odds with many existing non-truth-conditional semantic theories of conditionals, whereas it is explained by the semantics for conditionals defended in this chapter. The chapter concludes by diagnosing several apparent counterexamples to classically valid inference rules embedding epistemic vocabulary.
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Murray, Sarah E. Declarative sentences. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199681570.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 develops a compositional implementation of this analysis for evidentials in declarative sentences that does not appeal to separate dimensions of illocutionary meaning. In particular, I use an update semantics where both truth‐conditional content and anaphoric potential is encoded (Update with Centering). The formal implementation builds on work in dynamic semantics and the semantics of assertion and questions. This compositional, dynamic implementation integrates the different kinds of semantic contributions discussed in Chapter 3 into a single representation of meaning.
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Book chapters on the topic "Truth-conditional semantics"

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Carston, Robyn. "Truth-conditional semantics." In Handbook of Pragmatics, 544–50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hop.m.tru1.

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Carston, Robyn. "Truth-conditional semantics." In Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, 280–88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hoph.10.24car.

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Kennedy, Neil. "Antirealism, Meaning and Truth-Conditional Semantics." In The Realism-Antirealism Debate in the Age of Alternative Logics, 119–40. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1923-1_7.

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Hinterwimmer, Stefan. "10. Information structure and truth conditional semantics." In Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure, edited by Paul Portner, Claudia Maienborn, and Klaus von Heusinger, 339–80. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110589863-010.

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Azzouni, Jody. "Truth and Falsity Attributions and Truth-Conditional Semantics in Private Languages." In The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics, 87–108. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49061-8_6.

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Liefke, Kristina. "A Compositional Pluralist Semantics for Extensional and Attitude Verbs." In Language, Cognition, and Mind, 25–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50200-3_2.

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AbstractWe propose a new account of linguistic content that reconciles content-pluralism with compositionality. This is achieved by integrating truth-conditional content and attitude report content into a single notion of content. A parametrized version of this notion (with parameters for agents, times, and information states) serves as input to the compositional semantic machinery. By supplying different parameter-values to the parametrized contents of their complements, different verbs select for different components of the complement’s integrated content. The resulting account explains the different substitution properties of extensional and attitude constructions and captures the role of agents’ epistemicperspective in the determination of attitude content. The account improves upon other accounts of truth-conditional and attitude content (esp. two-dimensional semantics) by interpreting different occurrences of an expression—in extensional and in attitude embeddings—as objects of the same semantic type, and by explaining the substitution-resistance of attitudinal embeddings of extensional constructions.
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Lycan, William G. "Logical Constants and the Glory of Truth-Conditional Semantics." In Modality and Meaning, 233–48. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0936-9_10.

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Hintikka, Jaakko. "Game-Theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-Conditional Meaning Theories." In Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays, 250–73. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2531-6_10.

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Predelli, Stefano. "From the Expressive to the Derogatory: On the Semantic Role for Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning." In New Waves in Philosophy of Language, 164–85. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230248588_9.

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Eckardt, Regine. "Truth Conditional Semantics." In Meaning Change in Grammaticalization, 59–90. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199262601.003.0003.

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