{"id":16325,"date":"2024-05-06T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2024\/05\/06\/linglunch-5-9-viola-schmitt-mit-humboldt-universitat-zu-berlin-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:02:00","slug":"linglunch-5-9-viola-schmitt-mit-humboldt-universitat-zu-berlin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/05\/06\/linglunch-5-9-viola-schmitt-mit-humboldt-universitat-zu-berlin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 5\/9 - Viola Schmitt (MIT\/Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Viola Schmitt (MIT\/Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Possible worlds and ontological symmetry<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, May 9th, 12:30pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The main point of this talk is a negative claim: I will argue that possible worlds  differ from other objects via which construct meanings in terms (i) reference and (ii) plurality formation (i.e.., contra ontological symmetry, Schlenker 2006). Based on this claim, I will outline a puzzle, namely, why worlds should be constrained in this way and why \u0097 in the modal part of the language \u0097 quantification is seemingly dissociated from reference and plurality formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Viola Schmitt (MIT\/Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin)Title: Possible worlds and ontological symmetryTime: Thursday, May 9th, 12:30pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: The main point of this talk is a negative claim: I will argue that possible worlds differ from other objects via which construct meanings in terms (i) reference and (ii) plurality formation (i.e.., contra ontological symmetry, Schlenker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}