Doing Worlds with Words [electronic resource] : Formal Semantics without Formal Metaphysics / by J. Peregrin.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789401584685
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/7861
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1995.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XVI, 240 p. online resource.
Dizi
Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 2542-8292 ; 253
İçindekiler Notu
1 Introduction: Logic and the Problem of Meaning -- 2 Roots of Logical Schematization -- 3 Axiomatic Systems -- 4 Model Theory -- 5 Quantification -- 6 Truth -- 7 Denotation -- 8 Meaning -- 9 Criterial Reconstruction -- 10 Necessity -- 11 Language and the World -- References -- Name Index.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Logic.
Semiotics.
Mathematical logic.
Language and languages __ Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Logic.
Semiotics.
Mathematical Logic and Foundations.
Philosophy of Language.
Epistemology.