Situation Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1 |
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| Editor:
| Cooper, Robin
Mukai, Kuniaki
Perry, John |
| Series title: | Lecture Notes Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-937073-55-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1991 |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $64.95 |
Book Description:
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Situation Theory grew out of attempts by Jon Barwise in the late 1970s to provide a semantics for 'naked-infinitive' perceptual reports such as 'Claire saw Jon run'. Barwise's intuition was that Claire didn't just see Jon, an individual, but Jon doing something, a situation. Situations are individuals having properties and standing in relations. A theory of situations would allow us to study and compare various types of situations or situation-like entitles, such as facts, events, and...
More DescriptionSituation Theory grew out of attempts by Jon Barwise in the late 1970s to provide a semantics for 'naked-infinitive' perceptual reports such as 'Claire saw Jon run'. Barwise's intuition was that Claire didn't just see Jon, an individual, but Jon doing something, a situation. Situations are individuals having properties and standing in relations. A theory of situations would allow us to study and compare various types of situations or situation-like entitles, such as facts, events, and scenes. One of the central themes of situation theory of meaning and reference should be set within a general theory of information, one moreover that is rich enough to do justice to perception, communication, and thought. By now many people have contributed by the need to give a rigorous mathematical account of the principles of information that underwrite the theory.