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Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics

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  1. D. Hockney
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  2. W. Harper
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  3. B. Freed
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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Counterfactuals and Comparative Possibility

    • David Lewis
    Pages 1-29

  3. Presuppositions

    • Robert Stalnaker
    Pages 31-41

  4. Incomplete Assertion and Belnap Connectives

    • Bas C. Van Fraassen
    Pages 43-70

  5. Dimensions of Truth

    • Hans G. Herzberger
    Pages 71-92

  6. Speaking of Nothing

    • Keith S. Donnellan
    Pages 93-118

  7. The Structure of Efficacy

    • Zeno Vendler
    Pages 119-136

  8. Harris and Chomsky at the Syntax-Semantics Boundary

    • Ray C. Dougherty
    Pages 137-193

  9. Some Transformational Extensions of Montague Grammar

    • Barbara Partee
    Pages 195-220

  10. Hedges: A Study in Meaning Criteria and the Logic of Fuzzy Concepts

    • George Lakoff
    Pages 221-271

  11. Comments: Lakoff’s Fuzzy Propositional Logic

    • Bas C. Van Fraassen
    Pages 273-277

  12. On the Semantics of Negation

    • Howard Lasnik
    Pages 279-311

  13. Verbs of Bitching

    • James D. McCawley
    Pages 313-332

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 333-333
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About this book

In 1973 a workshop was held at The University of Western Ontario on topics of common interest to philosophers and linguists. This volume con­ tains most of the papers presented at the workshop. Also included are previously unpublished essays by R. Dougherty and H. Lasnik as well as a comment on G. Lakoff's paper by B. van Fraassen. K. Donnellan's paper was presented at the workshop and subsequently appeared in The Philosophical Review. We thank the editors of this journal for permission to publish the paper here. The papers by D. Lewis, R. Stalnaker, G. Lakoff, B. Partee and H. Herzberger appeared earlier in Journal of Philosophical Logic by arrangement of the editors with B. van Fraassen and D. Reidel Publishing Company. The editors thank the officers of The University of Western Ontario for making the workshop possible and Pauline Campbell for making the workshop work. THE EDITORS DAVID LEWIS COUNTERFACTUALS AND COMPARATIVE POSSIBILITY* In the last dozen years or so, our understanding of modality has been much improved by means of possible-world semantics: the project of analyzing modal language by systematically specifying the conditions under which a modal sentence is true at a possible world. I hope to do the same for counterfactual conditionals. I write A 0-C for the counter­ factual conditional with antecedent A and consequent C. It may be read as 'H it were the case that A, then it would be the case that C' or some more idiomatic paraphrase thereof.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics

  • Editors: D. Hockney, W. Harper, B. Freed

  • Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1756-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1975

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0511-2Published: 31 August 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0512-9Published: 31 August 1975

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1756-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 333

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Logic

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