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Presuppositions and Pronouns - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

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Attitude reports 143<br />

For the verb want, Heim considers two possible analyses. One of these<br />

mirrors her treatment of believe. Besides a function that assigns subjects<br />

doxastic contexts, we assume as given a function whose range consists of sets<br />

of buletic alternatives: in each world w, bul fl a<br />

(w)( is the set of worlds that are<br />

compatible with a's 0's wishes <strong>and</strong> desires in w. The context-change semantics<br />

of want is then obtained by substituting 'bula(w)' fl <strong>for</strong> 'doxa(w)' fl (Heim<br />

1992:192): 192):<br />

(21) c[a wants

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