Logic, Form and Grammar
Title | Logic, Form and Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Long |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134547722 |
This work contains Peter Long's important essay, Logic, Form and Grammar, which resolves many difficulties for the logical form of an argument where the reasoning is hypothetical. Also included are two essays on classical problems in philosophical logic, relating to logical form and formal relations. All of the essays provide clear thinking and philosophical explanations, overturning many unchallenged suggestions in philosophical logic.
Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic
Title | Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Martin |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2018-09-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3110518287 |
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.
Logic as Grammar
Title | Logic as Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Norbert Hornstein |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780262081375 |
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.
Logical Form and Language
Title | Logical Form and Language PDF eBook |
Author | Gerhard Preyer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 534 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780199245550 |
One of the central issues of analytic philosophy and especially the theory of language is the concept of logical form. As typically understood this concept covers investigations into universal logical features underlying languages. However, from Frege and Russell onwards logical form analysts were no longer confined to such narrow linguistic perspectives. For them, investigating the logical form of language took the wider philosophical perspective of trying to understand language as our principal means for representing the world. From Russell's theory of definite descriptions to Davidson's truth-theoretical analyses of adverbial modification, citation, and reported speech, to lay open the logical structures underlying language is seen as a way of revealing the structure and features of the thereby represented world. Seventeen specially written essays by eminent philosophers and linguists appear for the first time in this anthology. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which illuminate the lively current debate about this topic.
Logic, Form and Grammar
Title | Logic, Form and Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Long |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134547714 |
This work contains Peter Long's important essay, Logic, Form and Grammar, which resolves many difficulties for the logical form of an argument where the reasoning is hypothetical. Also included are two essays on classical problems in philosophical logic, relating to logical form and formal relations. All of the essays provide clear thinking and philosophical explanations, overturning many unchallenged suggestions in philosophical logic.
The Logic of Grammar
Title | The Logic of Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Davidson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar
Title | Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | P.F. Strawson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1351897136 |
P.F. Strawson has supplied a new introduction for this reissue of his modern classic originally published in 1974. Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar explores two conceptions of subject and predicate, one of which lies at the core of standard logic and the other more closely relates to surface forms of natural language. Strawson renders these two conceptions, and their divergences, intelligible by relating them both to the 'basic case' in which the subject-term designates a substantial spatio-temporal individual. Through his treatment of these conceptions, Strawson added to our understanding of both logic and general grammar, helping us trace formal characteristics of logic and its grammar to their roots in general features of thought and experience, and observing how the grammatical structure of a large group of non-formalized languages naturally develops in various ways, along other lines. This book, based originally on seminar material used at Oxford and Princeton and a series of lectures delivered at Irvine and University College London, has become an enduring landmark in the literature of logic and the philosophy of language.