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Stefano Predelli
Researcher at University of Nottingham
Publications - 60
Citations - 836
Stefano Predelli is an academic researcher from University of Nottingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Context (language use) & Argument. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 60 publications receiving 772 citations. Previous affiliations of Stefano Predelli include University of Oslo & University of California, Los Angeles.
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I am not here now
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the traditional account of 'I', 'here', and 'now' goes wrong, and what adjustments are required to make the traditional assumptions in the semantics of indexicals correct.
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Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language
TL;DR: The Easy Problem of Belief Reports as mentioned in this paper is a collection of belief reports from the 1970s and 1980s about the easy problem of belief reporting in systems and their inputs, including: 1. System and their Inputs 2. Systems and their Indexes 3. The Vagaries of Action 4. The Colour of the Leaves 5.
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Utterance, Interpretation and the Logic of Indexicals
TL;DR: It is argued that some utterances of sentences containing occurrences of indexical expressions should not be evaluated with respect to the context of utterance, and that sentences such as ‘I am here now’ or ‘something exists’ should be treated as logical truths.
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Scare Quotes and Their Relation to Other Semantic Issues
TL;DR: The main aim of as discussed by the authors is to provide a unified analysis for some interesting uses of quotation marks, including so-called scare quotes, which are of no lesser interest than other, more widely studied effects achieved with the help of quotationmarks.
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Meaning without Truth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce non-truth-conditional meaning in the context of the Vagaries of Use, and propose a logic for 'alas' in the sense of "narrative logic for "alas".