Occasion-sensitive semantics

Tamara Dobler

Occasion-sensitive semantics

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In this paper we provide a formal model for occasion-sensitive semantics motivated by so called 'Travis cases' (Travis 1978, 2000, 2008, 2009). We suggest that understanding of an utterance of φ (knowing its truth conditions) can be modelled as a twofold partitioning of worlds in logical space, where the initial partition is induced by the context-invariant meaning of the sentence uttered and the latter on the basis of context-dependent goals. Our model uses only a single parameter to capture occasion-sensitivity of sentences: practical goals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WOC 2017 Contexts in Philosophy
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Workshop on Contexts in Philosophy co-located within the 10th International Conference on Modelling and Using Contexts (CONTEXT 2017) Paris, France, June 20, 2017
Editors	C. Penco, M. Vignolo
Publisher	CEUR-WS
Pages	20-35
Number of pages	16
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	2017 Workshop on Contexts in Philosophy, WOC 2017 - Paris, France Duration: 20 Jun 2017 → …

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	1845
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

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Conference	2017 Workshop on Contexts in Philosophy, WOC 2017
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	20/06/17 → …

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Dobler, T. (2017). Occasion-sensitive semantics. In C. Penco, & M. Vignolo (Eds.), WOC 2017 Contexts in Philosophy: Proceedings of the Workshop on Contexts in Philosophy co-located within the 10th International Conference on Modelling and Using Contexts (CONTEXT 2017) Paris, France, June 20, 2017 (pp. 20-35). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 1845). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1845/paper3.pdf

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Dobler, T 2017, Occasion-sensitive semantics. in C Penco & M Vignolo (eds), WOC 2017 Contexts in Philosophy: Proceedings of the Workshop on Contexts in Philosophy co-located within the 10th International Conference on Modelling and Using Contexts (CONTEXT 2017) Paris, France, June 20, 2017. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 1845, CEUR-WS, pp. 20-35, 2017 Workshop on Contexts in Philosophy, WOC 2017, Paris, France, 20/06/17. <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1845/paper3.pdf>

Occasion-sensitive semantics. / Dobler, Tamara.
WOC 2017 Contexts in Philosophy: Proceedings of the Workshop on Contexts in Philosophy co-located within the 10th International Conference on Modelling and Using Contexts (CONTEXT 2017) Paris, France, June 20, 2017. ed. / C. Penco; M. Vignolo. CEUR-WS, 2017. p. 20-35 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 1845).

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