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The Modalities of Essence and Ground

Jonas Werner

Series: Studies in Theoretical Philosophy

Volume 11 2022

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„… 3 Constructing the Semantics In this chapter I introduce and formally construct the world-semantics …” „… start by informally laying out the basic idea of how the semantics works in the first section. In the …” „… second section I will formally introduce the semantics for a first-order language. Only using a …”

7 Comparison and Conclusion S. 163-176

„… and Alex Skiles, the topic of the second section, as well as truthmaker-semantics as it is put forward …” „… semantics by the principle Essence Monotonicity (see 3.2) and it is guaranteed to hold in my logic of …” „… Truthmaker-Semantics Truthmaker-semantics is not only a tool that can be used to give a semantic account of grounding …”

1 Introduction S. 1-18

„… be modelled in the resulting semantics. It will take the form of a world semantics similar to the …” „… standard possible world semantics for metaphysical modality. One of its central features will be that not …” „… semantic values. The semantics will be argued to shed light on the deep philosophical connections between …”

Bibliography S. 177-184

„… Physicalism”. In: Journal of Philosophy 111, pp. 557–592. deRosset, Louis (2015). “Better Semantics for the …” „… . 241–273. – (2000). “Semantics for the Logic of Essence”. In: Journal of Philosophical Logic 29.6, pp …” „… Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic”. In: Journal of Philosophical Logic 43.2-3, pp. 549–577. – (2015 …”

4 Essence S. 75-110

„… 4 Essence In this chapter I demonstrate how my semantics can model truths saying what is essential …” „… be an interesting application of the resources my semantics provides and I hope that it will offer …” „… the technical side of his project. In his semantics for the logic of essence (which I have briefly …”

6 Grounding S. 133-162

„… impure logic of ground and in the sixth section I will show how my semantics can model contingent …” „… Implementing Grounding into the Semantics In ch. 4 § 1.2 I have introduced a second layer of truth-functional …” „… relevant for those who wish to understand the worlds in my semantics as sets of sentences of L. Given that …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. I-VIII

„… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3 Constructing the Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3.1 The Basic Idea …” „… Grounding into the Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . 136 6.3 The Structural Features of Grounding …” „… Truthmaker-Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 7.4 Final Remarks …”

5 Necessity and Possibility S. 111-132

„… metaphysically necessary truth in my semantics. According to this proposal, a truth is necessary if and only if …” „… quantification over non-existent objects. As already discussed in chapter 3, I work with a fixed-domain semantics …” „… out the falsity of A is not modelled in the semantics. In this case one might end up with the result …”

2 Immediate Minimal Grounds S. 19-38

„… put forward as a counterexample against exact verification in truthmaker semantics being minimal in …” „… semantics is based on the idea that to every formula there corresponds a set of exact verifiers that can …” „… of his semantics is that φ1, φ2, . . . weakly and fully grounds ψ iff every fusion of a verifier of φ …”

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Dilthey als Wissenschaftsphilosoph

Christian Damböck (ed.), Hans-Ulrich Lessing (ed.)

2016

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Jos de Mul The syntax, pragmatics and semantics of life S. 156-175

„… The syntax, pragmatics and semantics of life.Dilthey’s hermeneutics of life in light ofcontemporary …” „… bybiosemiotics, which analyzes the role codes, signals, signs and their157The syntax, pragmatics and semantics of …” „… in moredetail, with the help of the semiotic distinction between syntax, prag-matics and semantics …”

Inhalt S. 5-6

„… syntax, pragmatics and semantics of life. Dilthey’shermeneutics of life in the light of contemporary …”

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Logic with a Probability Semantics

Theodore Hailperin

2010

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Chapter 3. Probability Semantics for ON Logic S. 67-107

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Semantic Pluralism

Emanuel Viebahn

Series: Studies in Theoretical Philosophy

Volume 8 2019

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2. Semantics: aims, explanations and theories S. 7-40

„… 2 Semantics: aims, explanations and theories In this chapter, I will discuss the aims and …” „… . The chapter has three sections. In the first section, I will look at the aims of semantics. While …” „… semantics: whether a semantic theory is right to pair an expression with a certain semantic value depends …”

1. Introduction S. 1-6

„… 1 Introduction How do speakers use language to communicate thoughts? Theorists in semantics, the …” „… . Contextualists hold that semantics is propositional: that the semantic value of every sentence, as uttered on a …” „… certain occasion, is a proposition. And they hold that semantics is sensitive: that many sentences …”

Bibliography S. 155-162

„… demonstratives. Philosophical Studies 97: 225–244. –––. 2004: Minimal Semantics. Oxford: Oxford University Press …” „… : 278–296. –––. 2005: Insensitive semantics. Oxford: Blackwell. –––. 2006: 2006. Reply to Bach …” „… semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Davidson, D. 1984: Inquiries into truth and …”

4. Semantic Pluralism S. 81-114

„… semantics (Section 4.3) and Semantic Pluralism 82 will demonstrate that Pluralism fits into a broadly …” „… would require a book-length treatment of its own. As I see it, adherents of both sensitive semantics …” „… and insensitive semantics should be Pluralists. 4.1 Flexible Pluralism Flexible Pluralism rejects …”

5. Responding to objections to Semantic Pluralism S. 115-148

„… . One of the main reasons for the popularity of propositional semantics is the widespread belief that …” „… non-propositional semantics face a host of difficult objections. In this chapter, I will consider the most …” „… propositional semantics means departing from it in a radical way. And it is meant to aid arguments against …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. I-X

„… accepted in much of semantics. A set of propositions, says the hitherto little-explored view of Semantic …” „… For my parents Contents Acknowledgements ix 1. Introduction 1 2. Semantics: aims …” „… , explanations and theories 7 2.1 The aims of semantic theorising 8 2.2 Methods and explanations in semantics …”

6. Outlook S. 149-154

„… standard semantics. Semantic values are replaced by semantic value sets. Propositions are replaced by …” „… two such problems that affect Contextualism, the most popular view of propositional semantics. On the …” „… non-propositional semantics that do not affect Pluralists views. Not all Pluralist views collapse into thoroughly …”

3. The case for Semantic Pluralism S. 41-80

„… dominant view in contemporary semantics. In this chapter, I will put forward two arguments against …” „… semantics, which can be put to the test below. Furthermore, such expressions are commonly used in a …” „… within metasemantics. On the distinction between semantics and metasemantics, see e.g. Kaplan (1989: 573 …”

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Fashion Narrative and Translation

Rosanna Masiola

2023

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Chapter One Fashion Semantics S. 17-32

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Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion

Menelaos Christopoulos (ed.), Marion Meyer (ed.), Olga Levaniouk (ed.)

2010

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Part I Color Semantics S. 1-88

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The Myth of Aristotle's Development and the Betrayal of Metaphysics

Walter E. Wehrle

2001

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4: The Categories: Aristotelian Semantics S. 165-228

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Rethinking Athens Before the Persian Wars

Constanze Graml (ed.), Annarita Doronzio (ed.), Vincenzo Capozzoli (ed.)

Series: Münchner Studien zur Alten Welt

Volume 17 2020

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WOLFGANG FILSER A Question of Object. Class Semantics in Athenian Vase Painting (530–430 B.C.) S. 297-312

„… 297A Question of Object.Class Semantics in Athenian Vase Painting (530–430 B.C.)*WOLFGANG …” „… modes of representation in which the semantics of objects are bound closely to the social class and …” „… professionalism acquired by daily training.299A Question of Object. Class Semantics in Athenian Vase Painting …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-8

„… . Class Semantics in Athenian Vase Painting (530–430 B.C.)297Wolfgang FilserBIBLIOGRAPHY 313INDEX …”

ELISAVET P. SIOUMPARA Constructing Monumentality at the Athenian Acropolis in the Early 6th Century B.C. S. 149-166

„… , 193–215.151Constructing Monumentality at the Athenian Acropolis in the Early 6th Century B.C.semantics …”

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La transmisión de conceptos cristianos a las lenguas amerindias

Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz (ed.)

Series: Collectanea Instituti Anthropos

Volume 48 2016

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Otto Zwartjes Colonial Missionaries’ Translation Concepts and Practices: Semantics and Grammar S. 43-76

„… Colonial Missionaries’ Translation Concepts and Practices: Semantics and Grammar Otto …”

Frauke Sachse The Expression of Christian Concepts in Colonial K’iche’ Missionary Texts S. 93-116

„… reflected in the doctrinal record. The last section will fo-cus on how K’iche’ semantics were modified in …” „… semantics as Maya authors took up the 8 The term q’aq’al is also attested on its own. It occurs in the …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. i-vi

„… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Otto ZwartjesColonial Missionaries’ Translation Concepts and Practices: Semantics and Grammar …”

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Bolzano´s Conception of Grounding

Stefan Roski

Series: Studies in Theoretical Philosophy

Volume 2017

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B. Bolzano´s impure logic of grounding and Fine´s truth-maker semantics S. 241-250

„… B. Bolzano’s impure logic of grounding and Fine’s truth-maker semantics In this appendix, I will …” „… Chapter 5 hold in Kit Fine’s truth-maker semantics. 1 Before I begin, a caveat is in order. While Fine’s …” „… semantics is a highly powerful, flexible tool with many applications, its use in providing a semantics for …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. I-VIII

„… semantics 241 B.1. Principles and semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 B.2 …”

Preface S. IX-X

„… topics pertinent to the book, to Stephan Krämer for helping me with Fine’s truth-maker semantics, and to …”

Bibliography S. 257-266

„… . Tarski, A. (1956/1936). On the Concept of Logical Consequence. In A. Tarski (Ed.), Logic, Semantics …”

5. Bolzano´s logic of grounding and the logic of metaphysical grounding S. 215-232

„… semantics for the logic of grounding (Pred-Con ◮) and (Sub-Dis ◮) indeed turn out to be valid. (For …”

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Places, Spaces, and Voids in the Holocaust

Natalia Aleksiun (ed.), Hana Kubátová (ed.)

2021

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Dominique Schröder Writing the Camps, Shifting the Limits of Language: Toward a Semantics of the Concentration Camps S. 115-136

„… 115 Dominique Schröder Writing the Camps, Shifting the Limits of Language: Toward a Semantics …” „… Konzentrationslagern 1939–1945 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020). 117 Toward a Semantics of the Concentration Camps light …” „… : Peter Lang, 2000), 105–129, here 106. 119 Toward a Semantics of the Concentration Camps struggle for …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-6

„… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 DOMINIQUE SCHRÖDER Writing the Camps, Shifting the Limits of Language: Toward a Semantics of the …”

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The Phenomenon of Information

Mario Pérez-Montoro

2007

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Chapter 1. The Mathematical Theory of Communication: Constraints for a Semantics of Information S. 21-56

Chapter 3. The Relational Theory of Meaning: A Proposal for a Global Semantics of Information S. 141-198

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Messages, Meanings and Symbols

Charles T. Meadow

2006

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11 Communication: The Full Monty Composition; Technical Considerations; Semantics; Effectiveness; Some Real-Life Examples S. 187-200

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Handbuch Hochschullehre Digital

Jürgen Handke

2023

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IV Digitalisierung: Maßnahmen S. 97-104

„… SemanticsMathematik ZahlentheoriePädagogik Pädagogische TheorienPhilosophie Geschichte der PhilosophiePhysik …” „… ); Vorschlag fürdie Linguistik (in diesem Buch): „Semantics“Schritt 1 – Die Wahl der Lehrveranstaltung In …” „… • Propositions• Predicates• …• Historical SemanticsDas digitale Kursgerüst (Ausschnitt)Auf diese Weise erzeugt …”

II Die klassische Lehre S. 57-72

„… Gliederung bzw. Leitfaden diente.Kurs SemanticsLerneinheit PredicatesZentrale Themen derLerneinheit• The …” „… Sprache abge‐haltene Lehrveranstaltung zum Thema „Semantics“ zum Curriculumjedes linguistischen …” „… ] Unit 7: Ambiguity and Vagueness … Ausschnitt aus dem Semesterplan der Lehrveranstaltung„Semantics“ im …”

V Der digitale Inhalt S. 105-136

„… innerhalbeiner Lerneinheit:• Kurs: „Semantics“o Lerneinheit: „Predicates“o Thema: „Quantifiers“Am Ende des …” „… - Semantics, MC22 – Sentence Semantics etc.) ist.Die Webseite für das Teilthema „Quantifiers“ bietet zudem …”

VI Flankierende Materialien und Maßnahmen S. 137-158

„… sentence-internal semantics. It introduces a logical meta-language which defines the meaning of a sentence in terms …” „… den Ausschnitt aus einer solchen ‚Video-Link‐liste‘ des Kurses „Semantics“, in der drei fachrelevante …”

III Die Digitale Lehre S. 73-96

„… of Meaning (Semantics)Dabei ist der Menüpunkt „The VLC103 Course“ einer Übersicht überdie speziellen …”

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Intuition und Wissenschaft

Christian Bachhiesl (ed.), Sonja Bachhiesl (ed.), Stefan Köchel (ed.)

2018

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Wolfgang Brumetz The Uses of Truth S. 61-86

„… semantics now refers to the use of a mathematized concept of truth and not any more to the general idea of …” „… described in number theory and defined recursively in a simple way. By contrast, semantics treats of the …” „… was no mathematical model of semantics, and the notion of truth was believed not to be mathematizable …”

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