Declarative Illocutionary Point
A speech act theory concept defining the speaker's intention to convey information…
Understanding Vagueness: Precision, Ambiguity, and Indeterminacy
Vagueness describes terms lacking clear boundaries, leading to indeterminate cases. It's distinct…
Understanding ‘Use’ in Philosophy and Language Analysis
In philosophy, 'use' signifies the actual application of words in sentences to…
Truth Predicate
A truth predicate assigns truth to propositions, central to Tarski's semantic theory.…
Truthmakers: Grounding Propositions in Reality
Truthmakers are entities in the world that make propositions true. They ground…
Truth-in-a-Model in Semantic Theories
Truth-in-a-model signifies that a statement's truth is relative to a specific interpretation…
Understanding Tolerance in Vagueness Theory
A predicate is tolerant if minor changes in an object's properties don't…
Supervaluational Semantics: A Theory for Vagueness
Supervaluational semantics addresses vagueness by evaluating propositions across multiple precise interpretations. A…
Super-True Propositions in Supervaluational Semantics
Super-true propositions are central to supervaluational semantics. They remain true regardless of…