Kupffer on Occurrence Dependence

Here is the reference by Kupffer that I mentioned in class:

Manfred Kupffer. “Occurrence-Dependence”. Preprint Series of the Research Group “Logic in Philosophy”. University of Konstanz.

Abstract: Within a single sentence, sometimes different syntactic occurrences of the same expression refer differently. This is what I call “occurrence-dependence”. The paper compares two frameworks that are able to deal with occurrence-dependence, namely tokenreflexive semantics and occurrence-interpretation. It is argued that the key concept of the latter framework is reducible to the key concept of the first: while tokenreflexive semantics is concerned with the interpretation of utterances, occurrences should best be understood as certain sets of utterances.

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