Overview
- Provides a clear presentation of the various uses of the term logical form, from the traditional to the more recent
- Examines the relation between logic and natural language, a classical issue that is crucial to the whole analytic tradition in philosophy
- Articulates a line of thought that has an enormous impact on some widely debated issues in philosophical logic
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 393)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- logical form
- truth conditions
- content
- propositions
- first order definable
- semantic structure
- syntactic structure
- quantifier expressions
- quantification
- adequate formalization
- natural language
- Aristotelian logic, Stoic logic
- Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Tarski, Davidson, Montague
- LF
- vagueness
- validity
- logical consequence
- equivocation
- context sensitivity
About this book
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.
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Book Title: Logical Form
Book Subtitle: Between Logic and Natural Language
Authors: Andrea Iacona
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74154-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74153-6Published: 07 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89271-9Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74154-3Published: 28 January 2018
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 133
Topics: Logic, Semantics, Philosophy of Language, History of Philosophy, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages