Two-dimensionalism

Known as: Two dimensional semantics, Two dimensionalism, Two-dimensional modal semantics

Two-dimensionalism is an approach to semantics in analytic philosophy. It is a theory of how to determine the sense and reference of a word and the…

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2016

We argue that two types of context are central to grounding the semantics for the mass/count distinction. We combine and develop…

2014

Some opponents of epistemic two-dimensionalism say that the view should be rejected on the grounds that it misclassifies certain…

2013

A joint modelling of objective worlds and subjective perceptions within two-dimensional semantics eliminates the margin for error…

2012

Based on the differences between the epistemic possibility and metaphysical possibility,Chalmers put forward a new two…

2010

One of Kripke's fundamental objections to descriptivism was that the theory misclassifies certain a posteriori propositions…

2007

Kripke (1980) famously separates the metaphysical and epistemic modal domains, with supposed necessary a posteriori identity…

2007

2006

Saul Kripke’s (1980) Naming and Necessity changed the assumptions defining the philosophical landscape of its times. A well-known…

2005

Abstract.David Chalmers’s version of two-dimensional semantics is an attempt at setting up a unified semantic framework that…

1996