Names and Context by Dolf Rami;

Author:Dolf Rami; [Rami, Dolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350180642
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2021-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

The use-conditional coarse-grained semantics for name-functions and name-uses

Truth-conditional meaning

For every use-index i there is exactly one object x ∈ D and it is such that: Den (n()) = <i, x>.

Use-conditional meaning

Cn = The set of all use-indices that have a bearer of ‘N’ as its extension.

I leave it to the reader to formulate the fine-grained alternative from what I have said so far.

Additionally, we could also plausibly extend this strategy to the problem of non-literal uses of proper names. With respect to our mentioned three cases, one could claim that, as in the case of erroneous uses of proper names in the case of non-literal correct uses of names, the sentences that contain these names directly express truth-conditional contents that are not literally their semantic contents. However, in the case of the mentioned non-literal uses, contextual factors in combination with stress do not modify the semantic content of a proper name anymore, but, now, according to the progressive version of my theory, they temporally modify the use-conditional meaning of a proper name. In our three different cases, the following occurrent modified use-conditional meanings regulate our outlined four different non-literal uses of names:

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