Notes
1 Research for this paper has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, in the framework of projects HUM 2005–04665/FISO and HUM 2006–04907. Our thanks to this institution for its help and encouragement. We also thank an anonymous referee for this journal for helpful critical remarks.
2 He seems to consider absolute content as close to Kaplan’s notion of content. It seems, however, that Kaplan’s content does not include as many things as Gupta’s absolute content. Cf. Kaplan, Citation1989.
3 Gupta does not claim that every assertion has these two contents, but he does not provide us with any criterion that determines whether a particular assertion has the two contents or only the absolute one.
4 This is a modified version of Grice’s modified version of Ockham’s razor.
5 An example borrowed from Camp, Citation2003.