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Essays on semantic content and context-sensitivity

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The thesis comprises three foundational studies on the topics named in its title, together with an introduction.

Ch. 1 argues against a popular combination of views in the philosophy of language: Propositionality, which says that the semantic values of natural language sentences (relative to contexts) are the propositions they express (in those contexts) and Compositionality, which says that the semantic value of a complex expression of a natural language (in a context) is determine...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
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Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Publication date:
2012
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford

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