title: Hyperfine-Grained Meanings in Classical Logic
creator: Muskens, Reinhard
subject: Philosophy of Language
subject: Semantics
subject: Logic
description: This paper develops a semantics for a fragment of English that is based on the idea of `impossible possible worlds'. This idea has earlier been formulated by authors such as Montague, Cresswell, Hintikka, and Rantala, but the present set-up shows how it can be formalized in a completely unproblematic logic---the ordinary classical theory of types. The theory is put to use in an account of propositional attitudes that is `hyperfine-grained', i.e. that does not suffer from the well-known problems involved with replacing expressions by  logical equivalents.
date: 1991
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4707/1/hyperfine.ps
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4707/2/hyperfine.pdf
identifier:   Muskens, Reinhard  (1991) Hyperfine-Grained Meanings in Classical Logic.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/4707/