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100The problem of negative existentials does not exist: A case for dynamic semanticsJournal of Pragmatics 41 (7): 1422-1434. 2009.The problem of negative existentials arises because utterances of such sentences have the paradoxical feature of denying what they presuppose, thus undermining their own truth. There are only two general strategies for solving the problem within the constraints traditional static semantics, and both strategies attempt to explain away this paradoxical feature. I argue that both strategies are fundamentally flawed, and that an adequate account of negative existentials must countenance, and not exp…Read more
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86'Obviously propositions are nothing': Russell and the logical form of belief reportsIn Gerhard Preyer & Georg Peter (eds.), Logical Form and Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 409--420. 2002.
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67A Non‐Alethic Approach to Faultless DisagreementDialectica 69 (4): 517-550. 2015.This paper motivates and describes a non-alethic approach to faultless disagreement involving predicates of personal taste. In section 1 I describe problems faced by Sundell's indexicalist approach, and MacFarlane's relativist approach. In section 2 I develop an alternative, non-alethic, approach. The non-alethic approach is broadly expressivist in that it endorses both the negative semantic thesis that simple sentences containing PPTs do not semantically encode complete propositions and the pos…Read more
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58Varieties of the generality constraintManuscrito 34 (2): 397-434. 2011.Since its introduction by Evans , the generality constraint has been invoked by various philosophers for different purposes. Our purpose here is, first, to clarify what precisely the GC states by way of an interpretive framework, the GC Schema, and second, to demonstrate in terms of this framework some problems that arise if one invokes the GC without clearly specifying an appropriate interpretation. By utilizing the GC Schema these sorts of problems can be avoided, and we thus propose it as a t…Read more
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