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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  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04556-5
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