Margin for error semantics and signal perception
Journal article: A joint modelling of objective worlds and subjective perceptions within two-dimensional semantics eliminates the margin for error principle and solves the epistemic sorites paradox. Two objective knowledge modalities can be defined in two-dimensional frames accounting for subjective perceptions: "necessary knowledge" (NK) and "possible knowledge" (PK), the latter being better suited to the interpretation of knowledge utterances. Two-dimensional semantics can in some cases be reduced to one-dimensional ones, by defining accessibility relations between objective worlds that reflect subjective perceptions: NK and PK are respectively equivalent to □□ and ◊□ in some one-dimensional frame, and to □ and another modality in some other.
Author(s)
David Spector
Journal
- Synthese
Date of publication
- 2013
Keywords
- Margin for error
- Sorites paradox
- Intransitive frames
- Positive introspection
- Possible worlds semantics
Pages
- 3247-3263
URL of the HAL notice
Version
- 1
Volume
- 190