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Doing Worlds with Words

Formal Semantics without Formal Metaphysics

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Jaroslav Peregrin

    1. Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 253)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Logic and the Problem of Meaning

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 1-7

  3. Roots of Logical Schematization

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 8-25

  4. Axiomatic Systems

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 26-47

  5. Model Theory

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 48-75

  6. Quantification

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 76-105

  7. Truth

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 106-121

  8. Denotation

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 122-137

  9. Meaning

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 138-157

  10. Criterial Reconstruction

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 158-176

  11. Necessity

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 177-191

  12. Language and the World

    • Jaroslav Peregrin
    Pages 192-217

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 218-240
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About this book

Doing Worlds with Words throws light on the problem of meaning as the meeting point of linguistics, logic and philosophy, and critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of elucidating the nature of meaning by means of formal logic, model theory and model-theoretical semantics. The main thrust of the book is to show that it is misguided to understand model theory metaphysically and so to try to base formal semantics on something like formal metaphysics; rather, the book states that model theory and similar tools of the analysis of language should be understood as capturing the semantically relevant, especially inferential, structure of language. From this vantage point, the reader gains a new light on many of the traditional concepts and problems of logic and philosophy of language, such as meaning, reference, truth and the nature of formal logic.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Peregrin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Doing Worlds with Words

  • Book Subtitle: Formal Semantics without Formal Metaphysics

  • Authors: Jaroslav Peregrin

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8468-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3742-3Published: 31 October 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4618-5Published: 07 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8468-5Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 240

  • Topics: Logic, Semantics, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology

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