Logic, Everyday Discourse, and Metaphysics
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Beschreibung
This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse. It offers a new analysis of the notion of individual, suggesting that this notion is linguistic, not ontological, and that anything denoted by a proper name in a well-functioning language game is an individual. It further posits that everyday discourse is non-compositional, i.e., its complex expressions are not just the result of putting simpler ones together but react on the latter, modifying their meaning through feedback.
The book theorizes that in everyday discourse, there is no algebra of truth values, but the latter can be both input and output of something which has no truth value at all. It suggests that an elementary proposition of everyday discourse (defined as having exactly one predicate) can, in principle, be indefinitely expanded by adding new components, belonging neither to subject nor to predicate, but remain elementary. This book is of interest to logicians and philosophers of language.
This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse. It offers a new analysis of the notion of individual, suggesting that this notion is linguistic, not ontological, and that anything denoted by a proper name in a well-functioning language game is an individual. It further posits that everyday discourse is non-compositional, i.e., its complex expressions are not just the result of putting simpler ones together but react on the latter, modifying their meaning through feedback.
The book theorizes that in everyday discourse, there is no algebra of truth values, but the latter can be both input and output of something which has no truth value at all. It suggests that an elementary proposition of everyday discourse (defined as having exactly one predicate) can, in principle, be indefinitely expanded by adding new components, belonging neither to subject nor to predicate, but remain elementary. This book is of interest to logicians and philosophers of language.
Offers a new analysis of the notion of individual Introduces and discusses a new polar opposition of "conceptually correct-incorrect" Includes numerous examples and references to the history of logic
Autor*in
Gianni Rigamonti
Themen in »Logic, Everyday Discourse, and Metaphysics«
Foundations of Aristotelean Logic Lukasiewicz’s Accomplishments and Failures Frege’s Reform Modern Notion of Well-formed Formula or Proposition Essentials of Tarskian Semantics What is an Individual Individuality and Substantiality Nelson Goodman’s Strange Predicates Non-mathematical Logic Propositional Attitudes Predicates In-out Making of the True and the False Adversative Constructions Causal Propositions Behavior of Negation About (above all) Miontague