The Situation in Logic, Volume 4Situation Theory and situation semantics are recent approaches to language and information, approaches first formulated by Jon Barwise and John Perry in Situations and Attitudes (1983). The present volume collects some of Barwise's papers written since then, those directly concerned with relations among logic, situation theory, and situation semantics. Several papers appear here for the first time. |
Contents
Scenes and Other Situations | 5 |
Logic and Information | 37 |
On the Circumstantial Relation | 59 |
Situations and Small Worlds | 79 |
Conditionals and Conditional Information | 97 |
Information and Circumstance | 137 |
Unburdening the Language of Thought | 155 |
Situations Sets and the Axiom of Foundation | 195 |
On the Model Theory of Common Knowledge | 201 |
Situations Facts and True Propositions | 221 |
Notes on Branch Points in Situation Theory | 255 |
AFA and the Unification of Information | 277 |
Mixed Fixed Points | 285 |
Toward | 293 |
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actual situation affairs agent anchor approach argue argument assume assumption axiom axiom of foundation Barwise and Perry basic infons belief bisimulation Bizet chapter claim Claire cognitive common knowledge computational conditional constraint conditional statements CSLI depends discussion distinct Dretske example fact first-order first-order logic fixed-point focus situation Fodor function give Holmes hypersets infons information content interpretation intuitions John Etchemendy John Perry Jon Barwise language of thought linguistic logically equivalent logicians mathematical mental model theory natural language notion objects parameters particular perception sentences Perry 33 perspective philosopher possible worlds semantics problem proof propositional content question real situation relative represent representation role scene seems sense set theory situated inference situation semantics situation theory sort speaker suppose talking theory of information theory of meaning things tion true truth conditions types of situations unarticulated constituents utterance wellfounded