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Logical Form

Andrea Iacona
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Author : Andrea Iacona
Publisher : Springer
Page : 139 pages
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Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319741543

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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.

Logical Form

Norbert Hornstein
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Author : Norbert Hornstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780631189428

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This book critically reviews grammatical research into logical form over the past 20 years and reconsiders some of its major themes in the light of recent theoretical innovations. In the late 1970s generative grammarians proposed the existence of an abstract syntactic level of grammatical representation derived from surface structure which was phonetically invisible. This level, dubbed logical form, has been thought of as the information that the grammar contributes to semantic interpretation. The first part of the book reviews the standard arguments for the existence of LF and its format.

Lexico-logical Form

Michael Brody
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Author : Michael Brody
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262522039

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Lexico-Logical Form relates in aim to Noam Chomsky's recent works on economy and minimalism: both authors recast the structure of the grammar, revealing its essential properties in the process. In Lexico- Logical Form, Michael Brody meticulously dissects aspects of the Principles and Parameters theory, pares away the extraneous, focuses on core issues, and recreates them in subtle and interesting ways.Brody argues for and discusses aspects of a radically minimalist, nonderivational approach to syntax in which both the central conceptual systems and the lexicon have direct access to the single syntactic representation, called Lexico-Logical Form. He proposes to streamline the syntactic component of the grammar by eliminating syntactic derivation and all syntactic levels of representation other than LF, the interface with the semantic component.A central driving force throughout is the elimination of redundancy in the theory. Since movement characterizes a subset of the relations characterized by chains, the former is eliminated. Since the lexicon must constrain the input to the semantic component, intervening representations are eliminated, and the relationship beween the lexicon and LF becomes direct. This timely approach explores a logical next step in the minimalist path.Lingistic Inquiry Monograph No. 27

Directionality and Logical Form

Josef Bayer
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Author : Josef Bayer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401712729

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Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control, not only of the ECP and subjacency, but also of directionality of government and the particular word-order parameter that holds in a given language: head-final languages systematically disallow certain derivations or readings that are available in head-initial languages. The reason is that heads that deviate in their selection properties from canonical head-finality project a directionality barrier. Various strategies are explored by which this barrier can be circumvented. Although the theory is developed mainly on the basis of the head position in German, it can be directly used to explain constraints on the scope of Wh-in-situ in Bengali and closely related languages. Audience: Syntacticians and semanticists interested in parametric variation, as well as linguists working on Germanic and/or Indo-Aryan languages.

Logical Forms

Richard Mark Sainsbury
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Author : Richard Mark Sainsbury
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631177787

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Logical Forms examines the formal languages of classical first order logic and modal logic, and some alternatives and in each case takes as the central question: how can natural language best be formalized in this formal language? The approach involves close encounters with issues in the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of language.

Logical Form and Language

Gerhard Preyer,Georg Peter
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Author : Gerhard Preyer,Georg Peter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019924555X

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Logical Form and Language by Gerhard Preyer,Georg Peter Pdf

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

Robert May
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Author : Robert May
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262631024

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Logical Form by Robert May Pdf

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

William G. Lycan
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Author : William G. Lycan
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015008866785

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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.

Language, Form, and Logic

Peter Ludlow,Sašo Živanović
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Author : Peter Ludlow,Sašo Živanović
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
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Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192677631

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Language, Form, and Logic by Peter Ludlow,Sašo Živanović Pdf

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.

Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech

Reinaldo Elugardo,Robert J. Stainton
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Author : Reinaldo Elugardo,Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402023019

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Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech by Reinaldo Elugardo,Robert J. Stainton Pdf

The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? As will emerge below, each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals speci?cally with nonsentential speech. Within the ?rst main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issueofwhethernonsententialspeechfallswithinthescopeofellipsisornot;within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. I. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF ELLIPSIS A. General Issue: How Many Natural Kinds? There are many things to which the label ‘ellipsis’ can be readily applied. But it’s quite unclear whether all of them belong in a single natural kind. To explain, consider a view, assumed in Stainton (2000), Stainton (2004a), and elsewhere. It is the view that there are fundamentally (at least) three very different things that readily get called ‘ellipsis’, each belonging to a distinct kind. First, there is the very broad phenomenon of a speaker omitting information which the hearer is expected to make use of in interpreting an utterance. Included therein, possibly as a special case, is the use of an abbreviated form of speech, when one could have used a more explicit expression. (See Neale (2000) and Sellars (1954) for more on this idea.

Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis

Jaroslav Peregrin,Vladimír Svoboda
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Author : Jaroslav Peregrin,Vladimír Svoboda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315453927

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Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis by Jaroslav Peregrin,Vladimír Svoboda Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive account of logic that addresses fundamental issues concerning the nature and foundations of the discipline. The authors claim that these foundations can not only be established without the need for strong metaphysical assumptions, but also without hypostasizing logical forms as specific entities. They present a systematic argument that the primary subject matter of logic is our linguistic interaction rather than our private reasoning and it is thus misleading to see logic as revealing "the laws of thought". In this sense, fundamental logical laws are implicit to our "language games" and are thus more similar to social norms than to the laws of nature. Peregrin and Svoboda also show that logical theories, despite the fact that they rely on rules implicit to our actual linguistic practice, firm up these rules and make them explicit. By carefully scrutinizing the project of logical analysis, the authors demonstrate that logical rules can be best seen as products of the so called reflective equilibrium. They suggest that we can profit from viewing languages as "inferential landscapes" and logicians as "geographers" who map them and try to pave safe routes through them. This book is an essential resource for scholars and researchers engaged with the foundations of logical theories and the philosophy of language.

A Companion to Philosophical Logic

Dale Jacquette
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Author : Dale Jacquette
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405149945

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A Companion to Philosophical Logic by Dale Jacquette Pdf

This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic. Presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of formal symbolic logic. Surveys major trends and offers original insights.

The Logical Alien

Sofia Miguens
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Author : Sofia Miguens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674242838

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“A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.” —Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of Virginia Could there be a logical alien—a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking? Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic, think that two contradictory statements are both true at the same time? Such questions may seem outlandish, but they serve to highlight a fundamental philosophical question: is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Descartes and Kant to Frege and Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question, and with a range of competing answers. A seminal 1991 paper, James Conant’s “The Search for Logically Alien Thought,” placed that question at the forefront of contemporary philosophical inquiry. The Logical Alien, edited by Sofia Miguens, gathers Conant’s original article with reflections on it by eight distinguished philosophers—Jocelyn Benoist, Matthew Boyle, Martin Gustafsson, Arata Hamawaki, Adrian Moore, Barry Stroud, Peter Sullivan, and Charles Travis. Conant follows with a wide-ranging response that places the philosophical discussion in historical context, critiques his original paper, addresses the exegetical and systematic issues raised by others, and presents an alternative account. The Logical Alien challenges contemporary conceptions of how logical and philosophical form must each relate to their content. This monumental volume offers the possibility of a new direction in philosophy.

The Logical Writings of Karl Popper

David Binder,Thomas Piecha,Peter Schroeder-Heister
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Author : David Binder,Thomas Piecha,Peter Schroeder-Heister
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030949266

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The Logical Writings of Karl Popper by David Binder,Thomas Piecha,Peter Schroeder-Heister Pdf

This open access book is the first ever collection of Karl Popper's writings on deductive logic. Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His philosophy of science ("falsificationism") and his social and political philosophy ("open society") have been widely discussed way beyond academic philosophy. What is not so well known is that Popper also produced a considerable work on the foundations of deductive logic, most of it published at the end of the 1940s as articles at scattered places. This little-known work deserves to be known better, as it is highly significant for modern proof-theoretic semantics. This collection assembles Popper's published writings on deductive logic in a single volume, together with all reviews of these papers. It also contains a large amount of unpublished material from the Popper Archives, including Popper's correspondence related to deductive logic and manuscripts that were (almost) finished, but did not reach the publication stage. All of these items are critically edited with additional comments by the editors. A general introduction puts Popper's work into the context of current discussions on the foundations of logic. This book should be of interest to logicians, philosophers, and anybody concerned with Popper's work.

Modality and Tense

Kit Fine
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Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199278701

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In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.