De Dicto Cognitive Reason Contextualism

De re and De dicto Modality in Islamic Traditional Logic

De Re and De Dicto: against the Conventional Wisdom

1. Preliminaries Conventional wisdom has it that there is a class of attitude ascriptions such that in making an ascription of that sort, the ascriber undertakes a commitment to specify the contents of the ascribee's head in what might be called a notionally sensitive, ascribee-centered way. In making such an ascription, the ascriber is supposed to undertake a commitment to specify the modes of...

Modal Aspects of Object Types and Part-Whole Relations and the de re/de dicto Distinction

In a series of publications, we have proposed a foundational system of ontological categories which has been used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual modeling languages and models. In this article, we continue this work by employing theories from Formal Ontology, Cognitive Psychology and Philosophical Logic to systematically investigate some important modal aspects of the ontologi...

de re and de dicto modality in islamic traditional logic

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Extensional and intensional collectives and the de re/de dicto distinction

Expressions designating collectives, such as “the committee” or “the ships in the port”, may be interpreted de re or de dicto, depending on context, according as they pick out collectives defined by their members or collectives defined by some criterion for membership. We call these E(xtensional)-collectives and I(ntensional)-collectives respectively, and in this paper we explore in depth the r...