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Linglib.Phenomena.Attitudes.Studies.Montague1973

Montague (1973) intensional examples @cite{montague-1973} #

Toy examples in Montague's PTQ-style intensional logic:

Uses the infrastructure from Core/Logic/Intensional/Examples.lean.

A small domain for examples

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      In the actual world (w0), morning star = evening star. But their INTENSIONS differ (they pick out different things in other worlds).

      "believe" as an attitude verb. ⟦believe⟧(a)(p)(w) = ∀w'. R(a,w,w') → p(w')

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        Extended believe that's world-dependent.

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          "John believes Mary sleeps" (de dicto)

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            John does NOT believe Mary sleeps: Mary doesn't sleep in w0 (John's accessible world).

            "John believes John sleeps" (de dicto)

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              "Mary believes John ate some cookies"

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                "Mary believes John ate all cookies"

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                  Mary believes John ate some cookies (trivially true proposition).

                  Up-down identity: applying down after up returns the original value.

                  Bridge to Direct Reference Theory #

                  The morningStar/eveningStar individual concepts defined above are Fregean concepts (world-dependent). In contrast, proper names in Semantics.Reference.Basic are Kripkean rigid designators.

                  This section makes the distinction explicit, connecting the existing Hesperus/Phosphorus examples to the direct reference framework.

                  "Hesperus" as a Kripkean proper name: rigid designator.

                  Contrast with morningStar above, which is a Fregean individual concept that varies across worlds. The proper name always returns .hesperus.

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                    morningStar is NOT rigid: it picks out different entities at different worlds. This contrasts with hesperus_rigid which IS rigid.

                    Independence of names vs concepts: a Fregean individual concept (morningStar) can agree with a Kripkean name (hesperus_rigid) at one world while diverging at others.