04507nam 2200613Ia 450 991097381760332120200520144314.01-283-35910-3978661335910090-272-7954-310.1075/pbcs.2(CKB)2550000000073209(EBL)802002(OCoLC)778617880(MiAaPQ)EBC802002(Au-PeEL)EBL802002(CaPaEBR)ebr10515897(DE-B1597)719431(DE-B1597)9789027279545(EXLCZ)99255000000007320919841011d1985 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLanguage and logic a speculative and condition-theoretic study /Johan Van der Auwera1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.19851 online resource (270 p.)Pragmatics & beyond companion series ;2A revision of the author's thesis, University of Antwerp, 1980.90-272-5002-2 Includes bibliography and index.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 desires4. 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 focusCHAPTER 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. 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 holism4.6. 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 implication5.1.3.2. 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; INDEXIn 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.Pragmatics & beyond companion series ;2.Language and logicLanguage and languagesPhilosophyLanguage and logic.Language and languagesPhilosophy.160Auwera Johan van der310993MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973817603321Language and logic4374416UNINA