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Cresswell I 67
Proposition/Cresswell: there are certainly semantics that accept propositions as basic entities and attribute them as values to sentences (Montague, 1974(1), 227, and Cresswell, 1966(2)).
>Sentences, >Functions, >Possible worlds, >Semantics of possible worlds.
I 68
(Also Thomason, 1980)(3).
Sentence functor/Montague/Thomason: in such theories the
meaning of the sentence functor is: a function of propositions on propositions,
of predicates: functions of individuals on propositions, etc.
Cf. >Propositions/Cresswell, >Sentence Meaning,
Thus, the generation property is obtained for all sentences.
Situational Semantics/Barwise/Perry/Cresswell: it is not certain whether Barwise and Perry can accept this - at least not, if the meaning of each sentence operator (and when expanding each modifier) must be represented by a function. For they must have infinite domains, and the two do not want infinite entities in the semantics (> Cresswell 1985b(4) 210f, 215f).
>Situation semantics.

1. R. Montague Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague. New Haven: Yale University Press (1974).
2. M. J. Cresswell. The completeness of S0. 5 Logique Et Analyse 9:263-6 (1966)
3. Richmond H. Thomason A model theory for propositional attitudes Linguistics and Philosophy 4 (1):47 - 70 (1980)
4. M. J. Cresswell. Situations and Attitudes Philosophical Review 94 (2):293 (1985)

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