FOM: Truth for Sentence Tokens

[Till Mossakowski]

Sandy Hodges wrote:

> I believe the idea that it is individual utterances (sentence tokens)
> which get truth values, rather than propositions or formulas, deserves
> more attention.    One treatment that allows sentence tokens to have
> different truth values is the Austinian proposal in Barwise and
> Etchemendy 1987, but that proposal contains many things besides merely
> allowing tokens to have different values.

You might want to have a look at the PhD thesis by Andreas Beck introducing
a two-valued solution of the Liar paradox that takes the referential
structure into account (here also different utterances of the
same sentence can get different truth values):

http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~till/Beck/

Till Mossakowski

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