Formal Semantics:
Class Handouts


A Review of Extensional Semantics

  • Part 1: The Fundamentals of Extensional Semantics
  • Part 2: Quantification, QR and Binding
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    Towards an Intensional Semantics

  • Part 1: The Motivation for Intensions and How to Formalize Them
  • Part 2: The Semantics of 'Believe' and Consequences for Our Theory
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    The Semantics of Modals

  • Part 1: Basics of the Quantificational Analysis, and the Appearance of 'Ambiguity'
  • Part 2: The Modal Base
  • Part 3: The Ordering Source
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    The Semantics of Conditionals

  • Part 1: What's Wrong with an Extensional Semantics for Conditionals?
  • Part 2: Intensional Treatments of Conditionals
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    The De Re vs. De Dicto Ambiguity

  • Part 1: The Classic 'QR' Approach and its Problems
  • Part 2: Explicit Binding of World Variables
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    The Semantics of Plurals

  • Part 1: The Basics
  • Part 2: Cumulativity, Distributivity, and Quantification