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标题：On ‘actually’ and ‘dthat’: Truth-conditional Differences in Possible Worlds Semantics
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作者：Genoveva Martí ; Genoveva Martí ; José Martínez-Fernández 等
期刊名称：Organon F
印刷版ISSN：1335-0668
电子版ISSN：2585-7150
出版年度：2019
卷号：26
期号：3
页码：491-504
DOI：10.31577/orgf.2019.26308
语种：English
出版社：Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
摘要：Although possible worlds semantics is a powerful tool to represent the semantic properties of natural language sentences,it has been often argued that it is too coarse: with the tools that possible worlds semantics puts at our disposal,any relevant semantic difference has to be a truth conditional difference representable as a difference in intension.A case that raises questions about the ability of possible worlds semantics to make the appropriate discriminations is the distinction between rigidity and direct reference,an issue deeply connected to the representation of the behaviour of two operators: ‘dthat’ and ‘actually’.Differences between the mode of operation of ‘dthat’ and ‘actually’ have been observed,but they have not been examined in depth.Our purpose is to explore systematically to what extent the observed differences between the two operators have truth conditional consequences that are formally representable in possible worlds semantics.
关键词：Actuality operator;direct reference;dthat;possible worlds semantics;rigidity