Moving parts: : a new indexical treatment of context-shifting predication

• Autores: Daniel Giberman
• Localización: Synthese, ISSN-e 1573-0964, Vol. 193, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 95-124
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A context-shifting example involves a putatively non-ambiguous, non-elliptical, non-indexical declarative sentence, some distinct utterances of which differ in truth value despite sameness of place, time, surrounding objects, and other physical factors. Charles Travis has spawned a large literature by arguing that such examples undermine compositional truth-conditional semantics. After explaining how prior responses to Travis’s examples fail in the metaphysical details, the present essay develops a new approach that treats a wide range of subject terms as disguised indexicals sensitive to mereological structure.