This book shows that the semantic analysis of modal notions of
possibility and necessity can be used to enhance our understanding
of the interpretation of reports of belief or emotional state. It
introduces intuitive notation and terminology to express ideas in
modern theories of modal interpretation that are normally
represented in complex logical formulas, effectively updates the
1960s-era link between possible worlds and the semantics of
propositional attitude ascriptions, and reconciles two disparate
views of the role of events in semantic interpretation, that of
Donald Davidson and that of David Lewis. It reduces a host of
variable behaviors of propositional attitude ascription to an
intuitive and precise distinction between ascriptions that merely
express a commitment to propositional content versus ones that
attribute a mental state to the holder of the propositional
attitude. This leads to an explanation of the nature and effects of
the language disorder of fluent aphasia.
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