Calendar

Concepts of Meaning

Circularity/Holism

Truth-Conditions

Truth-Conditions

Propositional Logic

Truth-Tables

The Connectives

The Material Conditional (cont.), as an analysis of "if"

Initial Plausibility

"Paradoxes"

Pragmatic Inferences

Gricean Quantity Implicatures (cont.)

Reasons to prefer a Pragmatic Approach over an Ambiguity Approach

Proper names have as their semantic value individuals

Predicates have as their semantic value sets of individuals, or functions from individuals to truth-values

Brief Discussion of Vagueness

The Lambda-notation for Specifying Functions

Order of Arguments

First Introduction to Relative Clauses

Relative Clauses

Gaps, Variables, Fillers

Predicate Abstraction

"smart dog" vs. "smart person"

Perhaps, adjectives are not one-place predicates but functions from one-place predicates to one-place predicates

Other Interesting Cases of Adjectives: "alleged murderer", "canine genius"

Definite NPs

"The" as a function from one-place predicates to individuals

Partial function only defined for predicates that are true of exactly one individual

Presuppositions

The "King of France"

Natural Language Quantifiers

Compared to Predicate Logic Quantifiers

The Meaning of "most"

Negative Polarity Items

Frege vs. Russell on the meaning of "the"

Attributive vs. Referential Uses of Definite Descriptions

Pragmatic analysis of the two uses of Definite Descriptions

Tense

Semantic Values Relative to a Time of Evaluation

The Past Tense

Existential Quantification or Referential?

Partee's Example "I didn't turn off the stove"

Also: "Last month, I went for a hike"

"The World of Sherlock Holmes"

Shifting the World of Evaluation

Conditionals again (cont.)

Stalnaker's Definite Analysis