BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:227@ub.edu DTSTART:20150225T130000Z DTEND:20150225T150000Z DTSTAMP:20250915T094554Z URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/what-is-said/ SUMMARY:What is Said? DESCRIPTION:It is sometimes argued that certain sentences of natural langua ge fail to express a determinate truth conditional content. Standard examp les include e.g. '\;Tipper is ready'\; and '\;Steel is strong eno ugh'\;. In this paper\, we provide a novel analysis of truth conditiona l meaning ('\;what is said'\;) using the notion of a \;question under discussion. This account (i) explains why these types of sentences a re not\, in fact\, semantically underdetermined (yet seem truth conditiona lly incomplete)\, (ii) provides a principled analysis of the process by wh ich natural language sentences (in general) can come to have enriched mean ings in context\, and (iii) shows why various alternative views\, e.g. so- called Radical Contextualism\, Moderate Contextualism\, and Semantic Minim alism\, are partially right in their respective analyses of the problem\, but also all ultimately wrong. Our analysis relies on a standard truth con ditional and compositional semantics and refrains from making any assumpti ons about enriched logical forms\, i.e. logical forms containing phonologi cally null expressions. CATEGORIES:Colloquium LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=C. Montalegre\, 6-8\, Barce lona\, 08001\, Spain;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Seminari de Filosofia UB:g eo:0,0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR