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Arnim von Stechow following in the text. We will see that this representation has a precise semantics. 5 Semantics 5.1 Context Theory The point I want to make in this section is that there is no quantification over contexts in Schlenker’s system, despite his claim to the opposite. A further point is that we need no such quantification. It follows that Schlenker’s attitude predicates are not monsters. With (Lewis, 1980) I am assuming that a context is a triple consisting of a person x, a world w and a time t. For any context c, a c is the first component of c, t c is the second component and w c is the third component of c. A character in the sense of (Kaplan, 1979) is a function from contexts into intensions. Suppose that sentence intensions are functions p from individual-world-time triples into truth-values, i.e. they are “centred world-times”. Let D e(i(st)) be the domain of these functions. Let C be the set of all Kaplanian contexts. It follows that the domain of sentence characters is the set D e(i(st)) C consisting of all (partial) functions from C into D e(i(st)) . If predicate of attitudes were monsters, the arguments of attitudes should be elements in D e(i(st))C . This, however, never happens. Every argument of an attitude treated by Schlenker is an element of D e(i(st)) , i.e., an intension. This disproves his claim that attitudes are monsters. Below, I will say some words about the question of why one might think that attitudes quantify over contexts. A context c is appropriate for an LF j only if c determines a (partial) variable assignment for the free variables in j (cf. (Heim and Kratzer, 1998: p. 243)) 5.2 Semantics of the features 1 st , pres,
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