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Reference and Essence
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Recent views of conceptual structure
TL;DR: The authors reviewed theories of concept structure proposed since the mid-1970s, when the discovery of typicality effects led to the rejection of the view that instances of a concept share necessary and sufficient attributes.
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Domains of discourse
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a defence of the Austinian semantic approach to incomplete quantifiers and similar phenomena, and make connections between Austinian semantics and four particular theories: • the theory of reference and modes of presentation in terms of information files (see e.g. Perry 1993), • the concept of discourse interpretation as involving a process of context selection (see Sperber and Wilson 1986), • a theory of informational structure (for a survey, see Lambrecht 1994), and • the notion of mental spaces (Fauconnier 1985).
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The Epistemology of Modality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize objective modality as negative: it is what the modal words express when they are not used in any epistemic or deontic sense (a more precise characterization would take us too far afield).
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The modal view of essence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defend the modal view from Fine's challenge, arguing that essence admits of reductive analysis in exclusively modal terms and that Fine's argument is misdirected and therefore unsuccessful.
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Conceivability and De Re Modal Knowledge
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dilemma for both epistemic and non-epistemic versions of conceivability-based accounts of modal knowledge, and conclude that neither case elucidates the essentialist knowledge they would be committed to.
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Recent views of conceptual structure
TL;DR: The authors reviewed theories of concept structure proposed since the mid-1970s, when the discovery of typicality effects led to the rejection of the view that instances of a concept share necessary and sufficient attributes.
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Domains of discourse
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a defence of the Austinian semantic approach to incomplete quantifiers and similar phenomena, and make connections between Austinian semantics and four particular theories: • the theory of reference and modes of presentation in terms of information files (see e.g. Perry 1993), • the concept of discourse interpretation as involving a process of context selection (see Sperber and Wilson 1986), • a theory of informational structure (for a survey, see Lambrecht 1994), and • the notion of mental spaces (Fauconnier 1985).
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The modal view of essence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defend the modal view from Fine's challenge, arguing that essence admits of reductive analysis in exclusively modal terms and that Fine's argument is misdirected and therefore unsuccessful.
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Conceivability and De Re Modal Knowledge
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dilemma for both epistemic and non-epistemic versions of conceivability-based accounts of modal knowledge, and conclude that neither case elucidates the essentialist knowledge they would be committed to.