2000年6月23日

とき：

6月23日（金）4:30pm

ところ：

東京大学総合文化研究科（駒場キャンパス）10号館3階会議室

発表者：

吉満昭宏（名古屋大学大学院）

タイトル：

A Dynamic Semntics for Vague Predicates

概要：

Since the mid-seventies supervaluationism has been applied to give a conservative semantics for vague predicates and to avoid the so-called sorites paradox (e.g., Fine (1975) and Kamp (1975)). As many opponents pointed out, however, this framework has something elusive and lacks any explanations for it. Dynamic samantics I present this time is intended to defend its elusiveness positively from an information-theorerical point of view (the original idea is based upon Pinkal (1984, 1985)). Thus the aim of this talk is to present a dynamic semantics for vague predicates as a revised version of supervaluationism and to discuss its advantages and disadvantages.