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Contexts in Formal Semantics
Author(s) -
Gauker Christopher
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00305.x
Subject(s) - phenomenon , semantics (computer science) , context (archaeology) , computer science , epistemology , theory of relativity , formal semantics (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy , programming language , theoretical physics , physics , history , archaeology
Recent philosophical literature has debated the question of how much context‐relativity needs to be countenanced in precise semantic theories for natural languages and has displayed different conceptions of the way in which it might be accommodated. This article presents reasons to think that context‐relativity is a phenomenon that semantic theory must accommodate and identifies some of the issues concerning how it ought to be accommodated.