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Meaning Meeting - Paolo Santorio / Bounded variables (again)

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Meaning Meeting - Paolo Santorio / Bounded variables (again)

Linguistics | Philosophy Wednesday, October 28, 2026 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm Marie Mount Hall, 1108B

Wednesday October 28, Meaning Meeting is in Paolo's hands, with a discussion of "Bounded variables," abstracted below.

On one mainstream view, presupposition projection exploits a notion of local context. On a recent theory developed by Matt Mandelkern, the domains of epistemic modals are constrained by information states, which Mandelkern calls "bounds". Local contexts and bounds project in very similar ways, and seem to be part of the same broad system. But they are not quite the same thing: as Mandelkern points out, there are clear extensional differences between the two. I propose a system that links the two, with the goal of unifying Mandelkern's theory of modals and a Schlenker-style theory of presupposition projection.

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Wednesday October 28, Meaning Meeting is in Paolo's hands, with a discussion of "Bounded variables," abstracted below.

On one mainstream view, presupposition projection exploits a notion of local context. On a recent theory developed by Matt Mandelkern, the domains of epistemic modals are constrained by information states, which Mandelkern calls "bounds". Local contexts and bounds project in very similar ways, and seem to be part of the same broad system. But they are not quite the same thing: as Mandelkern points out, there are clear extensional differences between the two. I propose a system that links the two, with the goal of unifying Mandelkern's theory of modals and a Schlenker-style theory of presupposition projection.

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