{"id":11603,"date":"2018-10-29T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2018-10-28T23:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:52:39","slug":"lingphil-reading-group-1029-on-sauerland-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/10\/29\/lingphil-reading-group-1029-on-sauerland-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"LingPhil Reading Group 10\/29 \u0096 on Sauerland (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Itai Bassi<\/em> will be presenting a paper by Uli Sauerland. This paper uses Lewis counterpart theory to obtain a more constrained and empirically adequate view of the De Re\/De Dicto phenomenon. The meeting will take place on Monday 29th in the 8th floor seminar room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title : <br clear='none'\/>\n <\/strong>Counterparts block some &#8220;De Re&#8221; readings<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author(s) : <\/strong>Uli Sauerland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract :<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Irene Heim in unpublished work proposed a new syntax-semantics interface for propositional attitude reports based on an ontology without transworld individuals, but counterpart functions instead. We show that the approach can capture the \u0091de re\u0092\/\u0091de dicto\u0092 distinction, but makes different predictions from accounts with transworld individuals. Specifically, the account uses a non-invertible counterpart functions: a single individual in an alternative world can be the counterpart of many individuals of the real world. The directionality of counterpart functions predicts that a \u0091de dicto\u0092 interpreted DP cannot be an argument of a \u0091de re\u0092 interpreted predicate. We show that the predicted restriction is corroborated by existing work on restrictions on \u0091de re\u0092 interpretation. The derivation of constraints on \u0091de re\u0092 interpretation argues empirically for the counterpart ontology and Heim\u0092s implementation thereof.<\/div>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itai Bassi will be presenting a paper by Uli Sauerland. This paper uses Lewis counterpart theory to obtain a more constrained and empirically adequate view of the De Re\/De Dicto phenomenon. The meeting will take place on Monday 29th in the 8th floor seminar room. Title : Counterparts block some &#8220;De Re&#8221; readings Author(s) : [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11627,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions\/11627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}