[PDF] Top 20 MoL 2009 18: Inquisitive Semantics and Logic

... update semantics defined here is perfectly static, as there are no real dynamic ...same inquisitive semantics in terms of static, possible world semantics, as under Definition 25 ...one ... See full document

... sitional semantics and to start over from a different definition of possibilities which, fortunately, will turn out to be tightly related to the old one, so that most features of the system we discussed so far ... See full document

... an inquisitive dialogue strives for, as is particularly clear from the fact that any assertion is at least as homoge- neous as any question (item 5 in the list), we need some more specific directions that tell us, ... See full document

... Inquisitive semantics and Hamblin semantics approach the notion of answerhood from dif- ferent points of ...departure. Inquisitive semantics starts with the pre-theoretic notion of what ... See full document

... of inquisitive semantics, is that the multi-agent Kripke models that are used in del make it possible to describe the epistemic states of a set of agents at a certain point in a conversation in a precise ... See full document

... the semantics relative to pairs of worlds as it is defined here, as a logically more simple alternative for the update semantics I gave for the language in the ... See full document

... question semantics known as Inquisitive Semantics (Ciardelli et ...and inquisitive triviality, we will be able to assess the grammaticality of both declarative and interrogative ... See full document

... of inquisitive semantics is a notion of meaning, intended to provide an ade- quate foundation for the analysis of the exchange of information in linguistic ...and inquisitive content of a ... See full document

... Although inquisitive semantics was primarily developed to model questions in natural lan- guage, it also provides a new perspective on questions in logic: since questions as well as statements can ... See full document

... Relevance logic requirement for the antecedent to be relevant for an implication to hold does not seem to be directly reflected in the inquisitive modeling of ...within Inquisitive Semantics ... See full document

... Basic compliance intuitions. Before stating the definition of compliance, we first discuss the basic logico-pragmatical intuitions behind it. Consider a situation where a sentence ϕ is a response to an initiative ψ. We ... See full document

... However, someone familiar with the DEL literature might know that there al- ready are two analyses of the surprise examination paradox in this framework: (i) Gerbrandy 1999 (20), restated in Gerbrandy 2007 (21) and Kooi ... See full document

... algebraic semantics for DNA -logics and we applied this general setting to inquisitive ...This semantics allows to apply methods of uni- versal algebra to study DNA -logics and inquisitive ... See full document

... philosophical logic. That is why a different approach, called Philosophical Inquisitive Logic, was brought ...temic Logic where not only agents are able to address each other but they are also ... See full document

... To start with my toy example. Let us say we have a predicate F in a first order language for which F a is true, a = b and F b is false. The way in which we know whether F x is true for any term x is by assigning an ... See full document

... and semantics has in- dicated that a variation that is less rationally demanding is welcome in at least the study of ...appealing logic where strategy and player become one formal ... See full document

... of semantics to ethics or an identification of the relevant reasons in each case, the appeal to autonomy indeed appears to work as a framework for both realms of ...as Inquisitive Semantics and ... See full document

... PROCESSING OF SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE BY PREDICATE LOGIC OF PREDICATE LOGIC PROCESSING OF SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE BY PREDICATE LOGIC Hiroyuki Yamauchi Institute of Sp[.] ... See full document

... the semantics of counterfactuals has been formulated under event ...the semantics can be used to determine the truth value of counterfactuals precisely, ...the semantics can also preserve the ... See full document

... Following Krifka (2004), I will make a distinction between propositions and speech acts, where I take the first to be the semantic content of a sentence and the latter the effect that an utterance has on a discourse ... See full document