Presuppositions and Pronouns - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

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common sense notion of belief than any other account that I know of, and I
have not given up hope yet that its problems can be solved, for instance along
the lines set out by Stalnaker (1984); but I will not address these problems
here.
So let us assume that belief is a relation between an individual and a set of
worlds. More accurately, if someone asserts that 'a believes I :If (w,f)E e cr} a}
I propose to extend the original DRT language in an essentially conservative
way. The main difference between the following version of DRT and the
standard one is that the latter has a poorer inventory of terms.
(31) DRS-terms
a. T = Rmi ; U u RMp U u Tp T (terms)
b. RMi Z = {u, v, w, ...,, u', u", ...}} (individual reference markers)
c. RMp = {p, q, r, r,..., , p', p",...} }(propositional (prepositional reference markers)
d. Tp T = {p+