{"id":7596,"date":"2021-06-28T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;eventDate=2022-05-16#038;p=7584"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:35:00","slug":"metaphysics-seminar-6-2022-05-16","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/event\/metaphysics-seminar-6-2022-05-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysics Seminar Franz Berto (University of St. Andrews and ILLC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Cognitive Synonymy: a Dead Parrot?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>Sentences \u03c6 and \u03c8 are <em>cognitive synonyms<\/em> for one when they play the same role in one\u2019s cognitive life: what one understands given either, one does, given the other; what one concludes (deductively, abductively, inductively, etc.) supposing either, one does, supposing the other; one would revise one\u2019s beliefs in the same way after learning either; etc.<\/p>\n<p>The notion is pervasive in linguistic and philosophical semantics, cogpsi, and AI \u2013 but elusive: it\u2019s bound to be hyperintensional, but excessive fine-graining, e.g., by indiscriminate use of \u2018open\u2019 impossible worlds, would trivialize it and there are independent reasons for some coarse-graining. It should be sensitive to subject matters and conceptual limitations, but this stands in the way of a natural algebra: even non-distributive or non-modular lattices won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, a cognitively adequate individuation of content may be intransitive due to \u2018dead parrot\u2019 series: sequences \u03c61, &#8230;, \u03c6n where adjacent \u03c6i,\u03c6j are cognitive synonyms for one while \u03c61 and \u03c6n are not. But finding an intransitive account is hard: Fregean equipollence won\u2019t do and an impossibility result by Leitgeb shows that it wouldn\u2019t satisfy a minimal compositionality principle . <em>Sed contra<\/em>, there are reasons <em>for<\/em> transitivity, too (from substitutivity <em>salva veritate<\/em>, non-mononotonicity, and uniformity principles).<\/p>\n<p>In spite of this mess, we come up with a formal semantics capturing this whole jumble of desiderata, thereby giving evidence that the notion is coherent. We then re-assess dead parrot cases in its light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Cognitive Synonymy: a Dead Parrot? Abstract: Sentences \u03c6 and \u03c8 are cognitive synonyms for one when they play the same role in one\u2019s cognitive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[47],"class_list":["post-7596","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-metaphysics-and-logic-group","cat_metaphysics-and-logic-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8636,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7596\/revisions\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}