Linguistics and Philosophy 23 (4):391--434 (2000)
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In this paper, I defend the thesis that alleffects of extra-linguistic context on thetruth-conditions of an assertion are traceable toelements in the actual syntactic structure of thesentence uttered. In the first section, I develop thethesis in detail, and discuss its implications for therelation between semantics and pragmatics. The nexttwo sections are devoted to apparent counterexamples.In the second section, I argue that there are noconvincing examples of true non-sentential assertions.In the third section, I argue that there are noconvincing examples of what John Perry has called`unarticulated constituents''. I conclude by drawingsome consequences of my arguments for appeals tocontext-dependence in the resolution of problems inepistemology and philosophical logic.
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Keywords | Linguistics Philosophy of Language Artificial Intelligence Computational Linguistics Semantics Syntax |
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Reprint years | 2004 |
DOI | 10.1023/A:1005599312747 |
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