On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:52:43PM -0500, I wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:46:42PM -0700, Nicolas F Rouquette wrote:
> > Which field of study talks about "intensional" contexts?
>
> There are very large (distinct but overlapping) bodies of literature on
> intensional contexts in linguistics, the philosophy of language, and
> philosophical logic. There is in particular a very active area of
> formal research falling under the rubric "intensional logic" -- very
> roughly, logics in which standard extensional semantical rules break
> down (or appear to break down). Modal logic is a prime example of an
> intensional logic. Notably, "it is necessary that" is a
> non-compositional ... (01)
Better, non-truth-functional (02)
> ...operator, that is, the truth value of a sentence of the form "It is
> necessary that p" is ... (03)
...is *not*... (04)
>... a determinate function of the truth value of p (unlike, say "It
>is not the case that p"). (05)
-chris (06)
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