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Informative dynamic semantics
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Rutgers University
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In dynamic semantics, the meaning of a sentence is modeled as a rule for how a body of information grows when the sentence is accepted. Recent work in dynamic semantics has analyzed sentences involving modals and conditionals as tests. Tests are a special type of dynamic meaning. When an agent learns a test, her information is guaranteed to either stay the same, or become absurd. The aim of this dissertation is to separate dynamic semantics from the notion of a test. The dissertation offers new analyses of modals, conditionals, and disjunction on which they are not tests. Nonetheless, these analyses are still genuinely dynamic. The meaning of sentences involving these expressions cannot be represented as a rule instructing the agent to update her information with the claim that she inhabits one of a fixed set of possibilities—that a certain proposition is true. Rather, the rule for how she is to update her information must make essential reference to her current information, providing different instructions depending on what that information is like.
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1 online resource (vi, 118 p. : ill.)
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by Simon Goldstein
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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