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Aspects of Philosophical Logic

Some Logical Forays into Central Notions of Linguistics and Philosophy

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Uwe Mönnich

    1. Seminar for English Philology, University of Tübingen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 147)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Tense Logic, Second-Order Logic and Natural Language

    • J. F. A. K. Van Benthem
    Pages 1-20

  3. Extensions of the Modal Calculi MCv and MC∞. Comparison of them with Similar Calculi Endowed with Different Semantics. Application to Probability Theory

    • Aldo Bressan
    Pages 21-66

  4. An Irreflexivity Lemma with Applications to Axiomatizations of Conditions on Tense Frames

    • Dov M. Gabbay
    Pages 67-89

  5. Expressive Functional Completeness in Tense Logic (Preliminary report)

    • Dov M. Gabbay
    Pages 91-117

  6. “Locally-at” as a Topological Quantifier-Former

    • Robert Goldblatt
    Pages 119-127

  7. Ambiguity of Pronouns: A Simple Case

    • Richard Smaby
    Pages 129-156

  8. Presupposition and Context

    • Arnim Von Stechow
    Pages 157-224

  9. The Paradox of the Heap

    • Hans Kamp
    Pages 225-277

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 279-283
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About this book

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a workshop on formal seman­ tics of natural languages which was held in Tiibingen from the 1st to the 3rd of December 1977. Its main body consists of revised versions of most of the papers presented on that occasion. Three supplementary papers (those by Gabbay and Sma by) are included because they seem to be of particular interest in their respective fields. The area covered by the work of scholars engaged in philosophical logic and the formal analysis of natural languages testifies to the live­ liness in those disciplines. It would have been impossible to aim at a complete documentation of relevant research within the limits imposed by a short conference whereas concentration on a single topic would have conveyed the false impression of uniformity foreign to a young and active field. It is hoped that the essays collected in this volume strike a reasonable balance between the two extremes. The topics discussed here certainly belong to the most important ones enjoying the attention of linguists and philosophers alike: the analysis of tense in formal and natural languages (van Benthem, Gabbay), the quickly expanding domain of generalized quantifiers (Goldblatt), the problem of vagueness (Kamp), the connected areas of pronominal reference (Smaby) and presupposition (von Stechow) and, last but not least, modal logic as a sort of all-embracing theoretical framework (Bressan). The workshop which led to this collection formed part of the activities celebrating the 500th anniversary of Tiibingen University.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Seminar for English Philology, University of Tübingen, Germany

    Uwe Mönnich

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Aspects of Philosophical Logic

  • Book Subtitle: Some Logical Forays into Central Notions of Linguistics and Philosophy

  • Editors: Uwe Mönnich

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8384-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1201-1Due: 31 October 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-8386-1Published: 03 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8384-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 290

  • Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Language

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