Demonstratives and indexicals in montague grammar

Bennett, Michael James

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“…Thus it would seem that such a de re thought would always be something different from such a de dicto thought. And this point obviously raises fundamental doubts about our original above Kantian analysis as well 32 Here see Kaplan (1977Kaplan ( ), (1978Kaplan ( ), (1979Perry (1977) and; Bennett (1978);and Lewis (1979). Important earlier work by Castaiieda (1966Castaiieda ( , 1967 has influenced some of the above essays and is applied to Kant (in Castafieda, 1967) in a suggestive manner.…”

Section: Zzz C Individuation F O R H De Re Knowledge and The De Dmentioning

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Kant's First-Critique Theory of the Transcendental Object

Howell¹

1981

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Summary The paper discusses major issues concerning the A104‐10 transcendental‐object theory. For that theory, our de re knowledge becomes related to its object just because our understanding (using the concept of a transcendental object) thinks a certain object to stand related to the intuition via which we know. Employing an apparatus of intensional logic, I argue that this thought of an object is to be understood as a certain sort of intuition‐related, de dicto thought. Then I explore how, via such a de dicto thought, we can nevertheless achieve de re knowledge. This question involves an important Kantian reduction of de re to de dicto outer‐object thinking, which I consider. Finally, I investigate some further topics about the transcendental object. I endeavor to show, throughout, that Kant's theory of that object is crucially related to matters of intensionality.

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Kant's First-Critique Theory of the Transcendental Object

Howell¹

1981

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“…If expressions or words are typed by meaning, so that the letter sequence ‘plane’ represents different words (“homonyms”), then sense is automatically held constant; compare and contrast Bennett : 9; Stephanou : 160.…”

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“…Kaplan : 509, 539, 547, 549; : 595. See also Lewis : 175, Plantinga : 504, Crossley & Humberstone : 15; Bennett : 32ff 65; Stalnaker : 320; and Paul : 63.…”

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“…See also Lewis : §9; : 98–9; Kaplan : 499, 522, 545; 1989: 594–7; White ; 1983; Bennett : 39ff, 42; Hazen ; Davies & Humberstone : 15; Perry : 586; Baldwin : 162; Bricker ; Krasner : 57–8; Soames : 252; MacFarlane : 85, 98. Miroiu (: 327–30) does not endorse indexicalism, but does maintain that ‘actual’ is indexical if ‘actually p is true in w iff p is true in w’ is a valid formula.…”

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“…See also Bar‐Hillel 1954: 359; Gale : 151; Montague : 103; Lewis : 184ff; Stalnaker : 229; Kaplan : 490, 506; White ; Lyons : 106, 637, 646; Bennett : 41; Smith : 189ff; Levinson ; Leezenberg : 1648; Perry : 586; Paul : 62–3; Forbes : 463; 2003: 87; Corazza : 593ff; Cappelen & Lepore : 89; González‐Romero 2005: 261. Related definitions characterize indexicals as expressions whose reference varies with the token, occurrence , or utterance ; see Burks : 685–7; Reichenbach : 284; Gale : 227; Perry : §3; 2003: 378; contrast Kaplan : 522.…”

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Demonstratives and indexicals in montague grammar

Cited by 36 publications

References 10 publications

Kant's First-Critique Theory of the Transcendental Object

Kant's First-Critique Theory of the Transcendental Object

The Semantics of Actuality Terms: Indexical vs. Descriptive Theories

Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English

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