Hyperintensionality and Overfitting
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| Publication date | 04-2024 |
| Journal | Synthese |
| Article number | 117 |
| Volume | Issue number | 203 | 4 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
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| Abstract |
A hyperintensional epistemic logic would take the contents which can be known or believed as more fine-grained than sets of possible worlds. I consider one objection to the idea: Williamson’s Objection from Overfitting. I propose a hyperintensional account of propositions as sets of worlds enriched with topics: what those propositions, and so the attitudes having them as contents, are about. I show that the account captures the conditions under which sentences express the same content; that it can be pervasively applied in formal and mainstream epistemology; and that it is left unscathed by the objection.
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| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04556-5 |
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