Philosophical Logic
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If meaning is the minimum that must be grasped in order to understand speech, then meaning is specified when speech is reported. What follows from this hypothesis, and how do constraints on reported speech compare with Frege's 'modes of presentation' as a guide to the concept of meaning? Or take iterated attitudes: two sentence operators may be extensionally equivalent, yet satisfy different principles. Does this phenomenon destroy the celebrated argument against mechanism from Godel's theorem, and what other implications does it have? Or again, does natural language tell for or against second-order logic? For example, is second-order quantification really substitutional, and is our use of plurals best represented in second-order terms? Five philosophers and a linguist debate these issues here. The volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with semantics and logical theory, whether they work in philosophy, logic, or linguistics.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9780197261828
EAN: 9780197261828
Publisher Date: 08 Apr 1999
Dewey: 160
Language: English
MediaMail: Y
Number of Items: 01
Series Title: English
Width: 160.02 mm
ISBN-10: 0197261825
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
Height: 236.22 mm
LCCN: 99236289
No of Pages: 168
PrintOnDemand: N
Spine Width: 22.86 mm