Coreference De Jure

François Recanati (1, 2)

1 IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod
2 Collège de France - Chaire Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

In the recent literature, the relation of coreference de jure (the CDJ relation, for short) is characterized roughly as follows: that relation holds between two singular terms (tokens) in a discourse just in case whoever understands the discourse knows that the two terms corefer if they refer at all . In the mental file framework, adopted here, this is cashed out by saying that the two terms are associated with the same mental file . This chapter discusses various alleged properties of the CDJ relation: factivity, transparency, and transitivity. It is argued that (i) the CDJ relation can be both factive and transparent, while (ii) we need to distinguish between two sorts of coreference de jure , only one of which is a transitive relation.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Philosophie

François Recanati. Coreference De Jure. Rachel Goodman; James Genone; Nick Kroll. Singular Thought and Mental Files, Oxford University Press, pp.161-186, 2020, ⟨10.1093/oso/9780198746881.003.0008⟩. ⟨hal-02932405⟩