Fregeanism, sententialism, and scope

Among philosophers, Fregeanism and sententialism are widely considered two of the leading theories semantics attitude reports. linguists, these approaches have received little recent sustained discussion. This paper aims to bridge this divide. I present a new formal implementation sententialism, with goal showing that can be developed in sufficient detail concreteness serious competitors which more popular among semanticists. develop modern treatment quantifying for style Heim Kratzer (1998), then show how can—somewhat surprisingly—account “third readings” (Fodor, 1970) on model “Standard Solution” from possible-worlds (von Fintel Heim, 2002). The resulting Fregean/sententialist proposal has distinctive attraction: it treats data related counterfactual attitudes (Ninan, 2008; Yanovich, 2011; Maier, 2015; Blumberg, 2018)—which proven challenging accommodate setting possible worlds semantics—straightforwardly as third readings.