Language Form And Logic
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Language Form And Logic
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Author : Peter Ludlow
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-24
Language Form And Logic written by Peter Ludlow and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book takes an idea first explored by medieval logicians 800 years ago and revisits it armed with the tools of contemporary linguistics, logic, and computer science. The idea - the Holy Grail of the medieval logicians - was the thought that all of logic could be reduced to two very simple rules that are sensitive to logical polarity (for example, the presence and absence of negations). Ludlow and Živanović pursue this idea and show how it has profound consequences for our understanding of the nature of human inferential capacities. They also show its consequences for some of the deepest issues in contemporary linguistics, including the nature of quantification, puzzles about discourse anaphora and pragmatics, and even insights into the source of aboutness in natural language. The key to their enterprise is a formal relation they call "p-scope" - a polarity-sensitive relation that controls the operations that can be carried out in their Dynamic Deductive System. They show that with p-scope in play, deductions can be carried out using sublogical operations like those they call COPY and PRUNE - operations that are simple syntactic operations on sentences. They prove that the resulting deductive system is complete and sound. The result is a beautiful formal tapestry in which p-scope unlocks important properties of natural language, including the property of "restrictedness," which they prove to be equivalent to the semantic notion of conservativity. More than that, they show that restrictedness is also a key to understanding quantification and discourse anaphora, and many other linguistic phenomena.
Logical Form And Language
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Author : Gerhard Preyer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002
Logical Form And Language written by Gerhard Preyer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Seventeen specially written essays by eminent philosophers and linguists appear for the first time in this anthology, all with the central theme of logical form - a fundamental issue in analytical philosophy and linguistic theory.
Logical Form
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Author : Andrea Iacona
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-28
Logical Form written by Andrea Iacona and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-28 with Philosophy categories.
Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This book focuses on the very idea of logical form, which is directly relevant to any principled reflection on that method. Its central thesis is that there is no such thing as a correct answer to the question of what is logical form: two significantly different notions of logical form are needed to fulfill two major theoretical roles that pertain respectively to logic and to semantics. This thesis has a negative and a positive side. The negative side is that a deeply rooted presumption about logical form turns out to be overly optimistic: there is no unique notion of logical form that can play both roles. The positive side is that the distinction between two notions of logical form, once properly spelled out, sheds light on some fundamental issues concerning the relation between logic and language.
Logic As Grammar
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Author : Norbert Hornstein
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1984
Logic As Grammar written by Norbert Hornstein and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Logic In Linguistics
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Author : Jens Allwood
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1977-09-15
Logic In Linguistics written by Jens Allwood and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-09-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The authors offer a clear, succinct and basic introduction to set theory and formal logic for linguists.
Language Form S Of Life And Logic
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Author : Christian Martin
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Language Form S Of Life And Logic written by Christian Martin and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Philosophy categories.
This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein’s approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance against both biological and ethnological interpretations of the notion "form of life" and seeks to promote a broadly logico-linguistic understanding instead. The structure of this book is threefold. Part one focuses on lines of thinking that lead from Wittgenstein’s earlier thought to the concept of form of life in his later work. Contributions to part two examine the concrete philosophical function of this notion as well as the ways in which it differs from cognate concepts. Contributions to part three put Wittgenstein’s notion of form of life in perspective by relating it to phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy and problems in contemporary analytic philosophy.
Foundations Of Logic And Language
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Author : Pranab Kumar Sen
language : en
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Release Date : 1990
Foundations Of Logic And Language written by Pranab Kumar Sen and has been published by Allied Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Language and logic categories.
Logic Language And Meaning Volume 1
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Author : L. T. F. Gamut
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1991
Logic Language And Meaning Volume 1 written by L. T. F. Gamut and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Philosophy categories.
Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions. Volume 1, Introduction to Logic, begins with a historical overview and then offers a thorough introduction to standard propositional and first-order predicate logic. It provides both a syntactic and a semantic approach to inference and validity, and discusses their relationship. Although language and meaning receive special attention, this introduction is also accessible to those with a more general interest in logic. In addition, the volume contains a survey of such topics as definite descriptions, restricted quantification, second-order logic, and many-valued logic. The pragmatic approach to non-truthconditional and conventional implicatures are also discussed. Finally, the relation between logic and formal syntax is treated, and the notions of rewrite rule, automation, grammatical complexity, and language hierarchy are explained.
Logical Form
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Author : Robert May
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1985
Logical Form written by Robert May and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This study focuses on the relation of syntactic and semantic structure. It investigates the notion that within generative grammar there is a level of linguistic representation Logical Form. Its main assumption is that this is a level of phrase structure representation, derived by transformational operations from S-structure, and over which formal semantic interpretations are defined.The book explores Logical Form by focusing primarily on quantificational phenomena and on how their explicit syntactic representation interacts with various syntactic and semantic properties. Among the topics discussed are the interactions of wh and quantified phrases, bound variable anaphora, branching quantifiers, extraposition and multiple interrogation.Logical Form contains several technical innovations: the notion that LF-movement closely approximates "Move α," a new approach to characterizing quantifier scope, which makes central use of the notion of "government," a novel interpretation of the relation of syntactic nodes and categorical projections, and an application of path theory to the syntactic structure of Logical Form.Robert May is Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Barnard College, Columbia University. Logical Form is Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 12.
Logical Form In Natural Language
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Author : William G. Lycan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1986-01
Logical Form In Natural Language written by William G. Lycan and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01 with Language and languages categories.
Logical Form in Natural Language clearly explains and defends the truth-theoretic method in semantics first developed by Donald Davidson to analyze logical forms of sentences of natural language.