LING 3505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Presupposition, Logical Consequence, Cooperative Principle
17 Jan 2016
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The set of actual things that the predicate is about/applies to/is true of (nouns, verbs, adjective) The intension of a predicate is what it applies to/is true of in all possible worlds. Extension of mountain: the set of all mountains in the actual world. Extension of faint: the set of all fainters in the actual world. Extension of awful: the set of all awful things in the actual world. Extension of a sentence = its truth value (true or false) Example: georgina left already, true or false (depending on the world) The intension of a sentence is its truth conditions, the set of all worlds where the sentence is true. The set of all alarm clock in the actual world. The reference of cairo in the actual world. The set of all fishknife"s in all possible worlds. The referent as he appears in any possible world. The set of all phoenix"s in all possible worlds.
