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

The Semantics of Intensionalization

This paper introduces a procedure that takes a simple version of extensional semantics and generates from it an equivalent possibleworld semantics that is suitable for treating intensional phenomena in natural language. This process of intensionalization allows to treat intensional phenomena as stemming exclusively from the lexical meaning of words like believe, need or fake. We illustrate the ...

Intensional Logic and the Irreducible Contrast between de dicto and de re

The paper deals with hot problems of current semantics that are interconnected with a fundamental question What is the meaning of a natural language expression? Our explication of the meaning is based on the key notion of Tichy’s Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL), namely that of the logical construction, an entity structured from the ‘algorithmic point of view’ (procedure), the structure of w...

De re and De dicto Modality in Islamic Traditional Logic

Image-based de re thought

In this paper I argue that in addition to the three generally recognized kinds of de re thought, i.e., perception-based, memory-based and communication-based thought, there is a kind of de re thought, which is based on image and cannot be assimilated to any of these recognized kinds of de re thought. I call it simply image-based de re thought. Although image-based thought shares some similariti...

Capturing Sense in Intensional Contexts

An account is ooered of the sense of referring expressions in in-tensional contexts. Unlike Russell's classic account in terms of the de re/de dicto distinction, this doesn't rely on a quantiier scope ambiguity in the logical form. Instead, diierent senses of a referring expression are captured by the diierent discourse models which emerge in diier-ent contexts of use. This approach has two adv...