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A basic tenet of situation semantics [Barwise and Perry, 1983; Barwise and Etchemendy, 1987; Barwise, 1989], deriving from Austin’s theory of truth [Austin, 1950], is that every statement is about a situation. To make a statement by uttering the sentence ‘Michel tossed the salad,’ I must also be referring to a specific situation — in this case, an event — which, if my statement is true, is one in which Michel tossed the salad.
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Seligman, J. (1997). The Logic of Correct Description. In: de Rijke, M. (eds) Advances in Intensional Logic. Applied Logic Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8879-9_5
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