X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=topics%2F_week6_plexy.mdwn;h=b93c29eb7ac8d258950d8b2d42d74344208acd53;hp=caf3e69d0a02df7c33b681c0c5197e7c3d475b35;hb=92b29e26e2757114e378add97be8ccc111d3fea0;hpb=629e27a98dad2c0c1bb4dbcc246c2d03693ef7c6;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/topics/_week6_plexy.mdwn b/topics/_week6_plexy.mdwn index caf3e69d..b93c29eb 100644 --- a/topics/_week6_plexy.mdwn +++ b/topics/_week6_plexy.mdwn @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ meaning. more complicated expression that, he argues, refers to Plexy, but this nicety is not crucial to our discussion here.) +## Types to the rescue + Kaplan's solution is, in effect, to impose a type system on his grammar in such a way that structured meanings cannot be confused with the referent of a directly-referential term. He suggests that the @@ -65,6 +67,8 @@ class of objects that a directly referential term can refer to, and the class of objects that can serve as the complex structure corresponding to a DP that is not directly referential. +## Motivating Maybe + Kaplan goes on to use this solution to attack a different problem, the problem of non-referring names. Russell supposed that if a name had no referent (e.g., *Santa*), a sentence containing that name would