tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22363645.post7091864228575246020..comments2021-04-20T04:35:44.650-07:00Comments on armchair investigations: variables are not directly referentialBrian Rabernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189164021937523325noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22363645.post-37615003687285544002011-12-12T18:21:35.083-08:002011-12-12T18:21:35.083-08:00On a first pass we could say that 'E(t)' i...On a first pass we could say that 'E(t)' is some sentence and the term t occurs in it.<br /><br />But we can be more precise: Let a linguistic environment E be an ordered pair (φ, α) of any sentence φ and any expression α from a certain language L. <br /><br />Where E is a linguistic environment (φ, α) let's write "E(β)" for the sentence that results when β is uniformly substituted for α in φ. <br /><br />For example if E = ('Atticus slept', 'Atticus'), then E('Olivia') is the sentence that results when 'Olivia' is uniformly substituted for 'Atticus' in 'Atticus slept'---that is the sentence 'Olivia slept'.Brian Rabernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05189164021937523325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22363645.post-29635384674767573432011-12-12T18:06:06.979-08:002011-12-12T18:06:06.979-08:00Sorry, could you explain the notation 'E(t)...Sorry, could you explain the notation 'E(t)'?Tristan Hazehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18008340011384137776noreply@blogger.com