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A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal SemanticsOn Davidson’s “The Logical Form of Action Sentences”

A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics: On Davidson’s “The Logical Form of Action... [This brief essay reviews and elaborates what I take to be Davidson’s main arguments for his celebrated “event analyses” for action reports like (1–9), beginning with the interesting pattern of implications and non-implications exhibited by such sentences.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal SemanticsOn Davidson’s “The Logical Form of Action Sentences”

Part of the Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Book Series (volume 100)
Editors: McNally, Louise; Szabó, Zoltán Gendler
Pietroski, Paul
A Reader's Guide to Classic Papers in Formal Semantics — Aug 6, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-85307-5
Pages
89 –102
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-85308-2_6
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Abstract

[This brief essay reviews and elaborates what I take to be Davidson’s main arguments for his celebrated “event analyses” for action reports like (1–9), beginning with the interesting pattern of implications and non-implications exhibited by such sentences.]

Published: Aug 6, 2022

Keywords: Actions; Adverbs; Compositionality; Events; Implication; Logical form; Meaning; Truth

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