Two-dimensional semantics and the articulation problem

Diego Marconi

pp. 321-349

in: Synthese 143 (3), 2005.

Abstract

David Chalmers’s version of two-dimensional semantics is an attempt at setting up a unified semantic framework that would vindicate both the Fregean and the Kripkean semantic intuitions. I claim that there are three acceptable ways of carrying out such a project, and that Chalmers’s theory does not coherently fit any of the three patterns. I suggest that the theory may be seen as pointing to the possibility of a double reading for many linguistic expressions (a double reading which, however, is not easily identified with straightforward semantic ambiguity).

Cited authors

Frege Gottlob

Chalmers David