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  • 2024 Apr 04

    Viola Schmitt presents

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    2 Arrow Street, Room 420

    You can find the details of Viola's presentation here:

    Worlds are not denotations
    The main goal of this talk is negative: I will argue that possible worlds don’t have object-language representations, as (i) readings that have been argued to require such object-language representations are more plausibly derived without them (this is based on current joint work with Ido Benbaji  and Clemens Mayr) and (ii)`ontological symmetry’ (as discussed in Schlenker 2006) breaks down when considering plurality. Beyond providing evidence for the negative claim, I...

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