Pat, (01)
I seriously doubt that anyone will successfully respond to that
challenge: (02)
PH> If anyone can suggest a single axiom which relates propositions
> or sentences to contexts, and is true both when this means the
> proposition is true at or in that time, and also when it means
> the proposition is entailed by a set of beliefs, I would be
> delighted to be shown it. I have made this challenge repeatedly
> to proponents of 'contexts' for many years, and have yet to be
> given an answer. (03)
That is like asking for a single axiom that relates a verb to
its object. The approach many linguists recommend is to treat
the relation between verb and object as a syntactic mechanism
that can express a variety of "thematic roles", such as
Theme, Patient, or Result -- any of which may be subdivided
further for various special cases. (04)
That approach makes it possible to specify different axioms for
each type of relation. As I said before, my proposal for handling
contexts is to do something similar: separate the syntax from
the semantics. Then specify different axioms for each relation
type that links a proposition to a statement that says something
about that proposition. (05)
John (06)
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