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18.1. ‘Noughtly’and the canonical logical form of negation 18.1. ‘Noughtly’and the canonical logical form of negation
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18.2. A logical language for event semantics 18.2. A logical language for event semantics
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18.3. Neo-Davidsonian decomposition 18.3. Neo-Davidsonian decomposition
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18.3.1. Thematic separation 18.3.1. Thematic separation
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18.3.2. Monadic event concepts 18.3.2. Monadic event concepts
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18.4. Localized definite description 18.4. Localized definite description
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18.5. Definite description by localized plural abstraction 18.5. Definite description by localized plural abstraction
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18.6. Noughtiness 18.6. Noughtiness
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18.6.1. The homogeneity condition 18.6.1. The homogeneity condition
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18.6.2. Plural definite descriptions under negation 18.6.2. Plural definite descriptions under negation
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18.7. Negative events and their negative descriptions 18.7. Negative events and their negative descriptions
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18.7.1. The objects of perception 18.7.1. The objects of perception
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18.7.2. Negative event descriptions 18.7.2. Negative event descriptions
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18.7.3. The scope of negation within descriptions 18.7.3. The scope of negation within descriptions
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18.8. Veridicality and consistency 18.8. Veridicality and consistency
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18.8.1. Veridicality and consistency as cinema verité 18.8.1. Veridicality and consistency as cinema verité
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18.9. Polyphonic causation 18.9. Polyphonic causation
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18.10. Summary 18.10. Summary
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Appendix: Gödel’s Slingshot (Neale 1995, 2001; Neale and Dever 1997) Appendix: Gödel’s Slingshot (Neale 1995, 2001; Neale and Dever 1997)
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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18 Negation in Event Semantics
Get accessBarry Schein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Plurals and Events (MIT Press, 1993) and ‘And’: Conjunction Reduction Redux (MIT Press, 2017) and contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (2006) and The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language (2012). He has published articles in event semantics on event identity, plurals, reciprocals, definite description, conjunction, and negation.
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Published:07 May 2020
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Abstract
With events as dense as time, negation threatens to be trivial, unless ‘not’ is noughtly, an adverb of quantification. So revised, classical puzzles of negation in natural language are revisited, in which deviation from the logical connective, violating Excluded Middle, appears to prompt a special condition or special meaning. The language of events also contains negative event descriptions—After the flood, it not drying out ruined the basement and one could smell it not drying out—and these appear to founder on the logic of the constructions in which they occur and on reference to suspect negative events, events of not drying out. A language for event semantics with ‘not’ as noughtly resolves the puzzles surveyed—within classical logic, without ambiguity or special conditions on the meaning of ‘not’, and without a metaphysics of negative events.
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