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Dynamic Semantics

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In the third chapter the results from the second chapter are lifted to an intensional setting. It is shown that notions of informational content, information update and speaker support can be defined interchangeably, and independently. The chapter ends with a discussion of the contextualist debate, and the books agrees with (almost of) the contextualist findings, but not the contextualists' conclusions.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Oude Turfmarkt 145, 1012 GC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Dekker, P.J.E. (2012). Information Update and Support. In: Dynamic Semantics. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4869-9_3

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