ABSTRACT

We have so far ignored any possible structure within our atomic sentences. As a result, there was nothing much to say about how an atomic comes to be true in a given case. Instead, we merely said that each atomic is either true or false (but not both) in each case. In this chapter we change things. We look ‘inside’ of atomics, bringing out a little bit of structure. In turn, since in our formal models cases are exactly ‘things with enough structure to give each atomic a semantic value,’ we will need to say a little bit about how atomics come to be true or false in a given case.