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(2016) Synthese 193 (1).
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.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0747-8
Full citation:
Giberman, D. (2016). Moving parts: a new indexical treatment of context-shifting predication. Synthese 193 (1), pp. 95-124.
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