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 Date: 2011-06-24 13:35:02Quantification Philosophy Logic Abstraction Semantics Skolem normal form Kratzer Quantifier Universal quantification De dicto and de re Existence Existential quantification |
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Context-givenness vs. existential quantification Salvador Mascarenhas New York University This paper argues that there are strong parallelisms between indefinite noun phrases and two seemingly unrelated constructions, na![I Believe I Can ϕ On Kratzer’s approach to modality ([9] a.o.), modals are quantifiers over a salient set of possible worlds whose quantificational force is lexically encoded. Abilitative ‘can’ seems to pose a cha](https://www.pdfsearch.io/img/151cf00c4f3d752361d32a85005759c7.jpg "I Believe I Can ϕ On Kratzer’s approach to modality ([9] a.o.), modals are quantifiers over a salient set of possible worlds whose quantificational force is lexically encoded. Abilitative ‘can’ seems to pose a cha")
