Logical form : between logic and natural language /: between logic and natural language. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrea Iacona.
• Authors: Iacona, Andrea
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; 1 The Early History of Logical Form; 1.1 Preamble; 1.2 Aristotle; 1.3 The Stoics; 1.4 Logic in the Middle Ages; 1.5 Leibniz's Dream; 2 The Ideal of Logical Perfection; 2.1 Frege; 2.2 Russell; 2.3 Wittgenstein; 2.4 A Logically Perfect Language; 2.5 The Old Conception of Logical Form; 3 Formal Languages and Natural Languages; 3.1 Tarski's Method; 3.2 Davidson's Program; 3.3 Montague Semantics; 3.4 The Current Conception of Logical Form; 3.5 Two Open Questions; 4 Logical Form and Syntactic Structure; 4.1 The Uniqueness Thesis; 4.2 Intrinsicalism; 4.3 LF 4.4 Semantic Structure4.5 Relationality in Formal Explanation; 4.6 Further Clarifications; 5 Logical Form and Truth Conditions; 5.1 The Truth-Conditional Notion; 5.2 Truth Conditions and Propositions; 5.3 Adequate Formalization; 5.4 A Truth-Conditional Account; 5.5 Logical Form as a Property of Propositions; 5.6 Extrinsicalism; 6 Logical Knowledge vs Knowledge of Logical Form; 6.1 Preliminaries; 6.2 Logical Identity and Logical Distinctness; 6.3 Distinct Objects Must Be Denoted by Distinct Names; 6.4 Distinct Names Must Denote Distinct Objects; 6.5 Logical Knowledge 6.6 Linguistic Competence and Rationality7 Validity; 7.1 Interpretations of Arguments; 7.2 Validity and Formal Validity; 7.3 The Sorites; 7.4 The Fallacy of Equivocation; 7.5 Context-Sensitive Arguments; 8 Quantified Sentences; 8.1 Two Questions About Quantified Sentences; 8.2 Quantifiers; 8.3 Meaning and Truth Conditions; 8.4 The Issue of First Order Definability; 8.5 Two Kinds of Formal Variation; 8.6 Conclusion; 9 Further Issues Concerning Quantification; 9.1 Two Kinds of Indeterminacy; 9.2 Precisifications of Quantifier Expressions; 9.3 First Order Definability Again; 9.4 Logicality 9.5 Quantification Over Absolutely Everything9.6 Unrestricted Quantification and Precision; Afterword; Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 160; Philosophy; Logic; Language and languages -- Philosophy; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Semantics; PHILOSOPHY / Logic; Language and languages -- Philosophy; Logic; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Philosophy; Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Semantics; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- General; Mathematics -- Logic; Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; Philosophy of language; History of Western philosophy; Mathematical theory of computation; Linguistics_xPhilosophy; Philosophy (General); Computer science; Philosophy -- Logic; Philosophy: logic; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319741543; 3319741543
• Related ISBNs: 9783319741536; 3319741535
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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