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Autore |
Auwera Johan van der |
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Titolo |
Language and logic : a speculative and condition-theoretic study / / Johan Van der Auwera |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-35910-3 |
9786613359100 |
90-272-7954-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pragmatics & beyond companion series ; ; 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and logic |
Language and languages - Philosophy |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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A revision of the author's thesis, University of Antwerp, 1980. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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LANGUAGE AND LOGICA Speculative and Condition-Theoretic Study; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright Page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER I. METHODOLOGY, CONTENTS, AND RELEVANCE; CHAPTER II. FROM POSSIBLE WORLDS TO HUMAN ACTION; 1. Philosophy of mind, ontology, and reflection; 1.1. Philosophy of mind and reflection; 1.2. Ontology and reflection; 1.3. Reflection; 2. The out-of-mind; 2.1. States of affairs; 2.2. Minimal ontology; 2.3. Possible worlds; 3. The mind; 3.1. Beliefs and desires; 3.2. Consciousness and beliefs; 3.3. Intentionality and desires |
4. Human action CHAPTER III. SPEECH ACTS AND MEANINGS; 1. Meaning and speech acts; 1.1. Meaning versus intended, natural, and non-natural meaning; 1.2. Speech act meaning; 2. Basic speech acts; 2.1. Assertions; 2.1.1. ρ; 2.1.2. S believes that ρ; 2.1.3. S speaks as if he or she believes that ρ; 2.2. Imperatives, optatives, and interrogatives; 2.2.1. The speech acts of non-belief...; 2.2.2. ... are the speech acts of desire; 2.3. Basic speech acts; 3. Semantics and pragmatics; 3.1. Mental states versus conceptualizations; 3.2. Genetic reflection and focus |
CHAPTER IV. TOWARDS A REFLECTIONIST AND CONDITION THEORETICLOGIC 1. The basis of logic; 1.1. Contemporary logic; 1.1.1. What logicians do; 1.1.2. What philosophers of logic say; 1.2. |
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Reflectionist logic; 2. Intra-logical RL interpretations; 3. Conditions; 3.1. Basic conditions; 3.1.1. Sufficient conditions; 3.1.2. Necesssary conditions; 3.1.3. Necessary and sufficient conditionality; 3.1.4. Completeness; 3.2. Impossibility conditions; 4. Truth; 4.1. Truth and conditionality; 4.2. Two-subvalued 'truth-of'; 4.3. Three-valuedness; 4.4. Correspondence and Coherence; 4.5. A tinge of holism |
4.6. Truth and satisfaction CHAPTER V. PROPOSITIONAL OPERATORS; 1. Conditional and componential analyses; 2. Conjunction; 3. Truth, falsity, and possibility; 3.1. Values and supervalues; 3.2. Pseudo-monadicness and presupposition; 3.3. Truth-value paradoxes; 4. Modality; 4.1. Necessity, contingency, and impossibility; 4.2. Iterated modality; 4.3. Fatalistic necessity; 4.4. The necessity of possible worlds semantics; 4.5. Generic modality; 5. Implication; 5.1. Sufficiency; 5.1.1. The connection thesis; 5.1.2. Objections; 5.1.3. Other implication; 5.1.3.1. Material implication |
5.1.3.2. Strict implication 5.1.3.3. Variably strict implication; 5.2. Possibility; 5.2.1. Particular conditionals; 5.2.2. Generic conditionals; 5.2.3. Objections; 6. Postliminaries; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning. |
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