The Construction of Logical Space

ISBN: 9780199662623 出版年：2013 页码：241 Rayo, Agustin Oxford University Press

• When we assert something about the world: (1) we make a distinction amongst ways for the world to be, and (2) we commit to one side of the distinction. Example: When we assert ‘Snow is white’: (1) we distinguish between white-snow and non-white-snow ways for the world to be, and (2) we commit the the white-snow side of this distinction. • For the assertion to be true is for the way the world actually is to be on the side of the distinction we are committed to. For the assertion to be true is for the world to lie on the white-snow side of this distinction. 2. Logical Space