tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37474993.post3808405723624127056..comments2024-01-13T11:31:45.396+01:00Comments on The bLOGOS: Kaplan and the shotgunDan López de Sahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16716694655307652854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37474993.post-14854625515924311562009-10-27T19:13:13.000+01:002009-10-27T19:13:13.000+01:00I thought the discussions about this on the occasi...I thought the discussions about this on the occasion of Dan LdS's presentation at the LOGOS-Jean Nicod meeting were clarifying. I would say that the examples only show that with one and the same "utterance" (individuating utterances relative to the physical properties of the uttering-output) one can make different "utterances" (now individuating them on the basis of constitutive semantic properties, such as the contribution of indexicals). Egan also appears to go for this (pp. 269-71), although he is not ultimately fully committal. But I agree with Dan's main claim, that there is a natural way of interpreting Lewis' framework of sentences, indexes and context that can also accommodate the examples.m g-chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291599601885624567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37474993.post-35749460627517280892009-10-15T18:33:37.422+02:002009-10-15T18:33:37.422+02:00Hi Dan!
The first part of the paper was actually ...Hi Dan!<br /><br />The first part of the paper was actually to argue (with Egan) against the interpretation of his <i>audience’s “positional” context</i> as <i>context of assessment</i>, in MacFarlane’s sense ;-).<br /><br />Re the core or your post, though, I interpreted Egan as suggesting that the phenomenon of audience-sensitivity motivates a refinement of the Lewisian basic notion of a sentence being true at a (Lewisian) context (= Kaplan context, according to <a href="http://blebblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/kaplan-contexts-lewis-contexts.html" rel="nofollow">my</a> (and Lewis’) interpretation of Kaplan), positing both a context for the speaker and a context for the audience. (I contended that contexts were already flexible enough as to accommodate the phenomenon, a position that Egan himself considers in a couple of footnotes, acknowledging discussion to Carrie Jenkins.)<br /><br />Part of the discussion did concern how the phenomenon could seem to pose a problem, or allow for an alternative form of accommodation, when (various conceptions of) particular <i>acts of uttering</i>, as opposed to sentences in context, are involved. Perhaps this a good occasion to invite people to elaborate ;-)!Dan López de Sahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16716694655307652854noreply@blogger.com