Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays

1. Front Matter

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2. The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 1-21

3. No Scope for Scope?

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 22-51

4. Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 52-70

5. ‘Is’, Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 71-106

6. Logical Form and Linguistic Theory

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 107-123

7. On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 124-145

8. Paradigms for Language Theory

   • Jaakko Hintikka

   Pages 146-174

9. The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference

   • Gabriel Sandu

   Pages 175-218

10. Perspectival Identification, Demonstratives and ‘Small Worlds’

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 219-249

11. Game-Theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-Conditional Meaning Theories

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 250-273

12. Metaphor and Other Kinds of Nonliteral Meaning

    • Gabriel Sandu

    Pages 274-310

Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference. In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed.

• Syntax
• language
• logic
• semantics

• Boston University, USA

  Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

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