Situation theory

Situation theory

Situation theory provides the mathematical foundations to Situation Semantics, and was developed by writers such as Jon Barwise and Keith Devlin in the eighties. Due to certain foundational problems the mathematics was framed in a non-well-founded set theory. One could think of the relation of situation theory to situation semantics as like that of Type theory to Montague Semantics.


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