Language and Logic
A speculative and condition-theoretic study
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1985
XIV, 256 pages
978-90-272-7954-5 (ISBN)
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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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- 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. ?
- 2.1.2. S believes that ?
- 2.1.3. S speaks as if he or she believes that ?
- 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. 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
