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135Prima facie obligationStudia Logica 57 (1): 19-45. 1996.This paper presents a nonmonotonic deontic logic based on commonsense entailment. It establishes criteria a successful account of obligation should satisfy, and develops a theory that satisfies them. The theory includes two conditional notions of prima facie obligation. One is constitutive; the other is epistemic, and follows nonmonotonically from the constitutive notion. The paper defines unconditional notions of prima facie obligation in terms of the conditional notions
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84Reference to Abstract Objects in DiscourseKluwer. 1993.This volume is about abstract objects and the ways we refer to them in natural language. Asher develops a semantical and metaphysical analysis of these entities in two stages. The first reflects the rich ontology of abstract objects necessitated by the forms of language in which we think and speak. A second level of analysis maps the ontology of natural language metaphysics onto a sparser domain--a more systematic realm of abstract objects that are fully analyzed. This second level reflects the …Read more
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156Lexical meaning in context: a web of wordsCambridge University Press. 2011.This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the ...
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124Belief in discourse representation theoryJournal of Philosophical Logic 15 (2). 1986.I hope I have convinced the reader that DR theory offers at least some exciting potential when applied to the semantics of belief reports. It differs considerably from other approaches, and it makes intuitively acceptable predictions that other theories do not. The theory also provides a novel approach to the semantics of other propsitional attitude reports. Further, DR theory enables one to approach the topic of anaphora within belief and other propositional attitude contexts in a novel way, th…Read more
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184A typology for attitude verbs and their anaphoric propertiesLinguistics and Philosophy 10 (2): 125--197. 1987.
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140A default, truth conditional semantics for the progressiveLinguistics and Philosophy 15 (5). 1992.
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257Semantic competence, linguistic understanding, and a theory of conceptsPhilosophical Studies 53 (January): 1-36. 1988.
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