{"id":11973,"date":"2019-03-11T06:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T10:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11973"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:36:26","slug":"ling-lunch-3-14-chris-tancredi-keio-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/03\/11\/ling-lunch-3-14-chris-tancredi-keio-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 3\/14 - Chris Tancredi (Keio University)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong>:\u00a0Chris Tancredi (Keio University) <br><strong>Title<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>De dicto, de re<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>de qualitate<\/em>\u00a0unified <br><strong>Time<\/strong>:\u00a0Thursday, 3\/14, 12:30-1:50pm<br><strong>Location<\/strong>:\u00a032-D461<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Past approaches to the semantics of belief statements have argued for a multiplicity of distinct interpretations, including&nbsp;<em>de dicto, de re, de qualitate<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>de translato<\/em>.&nbsp; The need\n for ambiguity in attitude statements is clear from the potential truth of sentences like&nbsp;<em>Ralph believes Ortcutt is a spy, but he doesn\u0092t believe ORTCUTT is a spy<\/em>.&nbsp; However, I argue that the only ambiguity specific to attitude statements is the&nbsp;<em>de\n translato<\/em>\/non-<em>de translato<\/em>&nbsp;distinction.&nbsp; In particular, I show how to reduce&nbsp;<em>de dicto\/de re\/de qualitate<\/em>&nbsp;interpretations\n to a single form.&nbsp; The key to the reduction is to analyze the embedded \nclause of an attitude statement as denoting a\n proposition inferable from an underlying belief of the subject rather \nthan denoting the subject\u0092s underlying belief itself.&nbsp; I show that the \nsemantics developed can account for attitudes toward necessary as well \nas impossible propositions, and that it further\n can account for the range of entailments felt to hold among multiple \nattitude statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Chris Tancredi (Keio University) Title:\u00a0De dicto, de re\u00a0and\u00a0de qualitate\u00a0unified Time:\u00a0Thursday, 3\/14, 12:30-1:50pmLocation:\u00a032-D461 Abstract: Past approaches to the semantics of belief statements have argued for a multiplicity of distinct interpretations, including&nbsp;de dicto, de re, de qualitate&nbsp;and&nbsp;de translato.&nbsp; The need for ambiguity in attitude statements is clear from the potential truth of sentences like&nbsp;Ralph believes Ortcutt is [&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-11973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973","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=11973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11974,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11973\/revisions\/11974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}