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Logical Form and Language Gerhard Preyer (University of Frankfurt)

Logical Form and Language By Gerhard Preyer (University of Frankfurt)

Logical Form and Language by Gerhard Preyer (University of Frankfurt)


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Seventeen specially written essays by eminent philosophers and linguists appear for the first time in this anthology, all with the central theme of logical form - a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which illuminate the lively current debate about this topic.

Logical Form and Language Summary

Logical Form and Language by Gerhard Preyer (University of Frankfurt)

One of the central issues of analytic philosophy and especially the theory of language is the concept of logical form. As typically understood this concept covers investigations into universal logical features underlying languages. However, from Frege and Russell onwards logical form analysts were no longer confined to such narrow linguistic perspectives. For them, investigating the logical form of language took the wider philosophical perspective of trying to understand language as our principal means for representing the world. From Russell's theory of definite descriptions to Davidson's truth-theoretical analyses of adverbial modification, citation, and reported speech, to lay open the logical structures underlying language is seen as a way of revealing the structure and features of the thereby represented world. Seventeen specially written essays by eminent philosophers and linguists appear for the first time in this anthology. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which illuminate the lively current debate about this topic.

Logical Form and Language Reviews

Logical Form and Language is a demanding but rewarding book ... [with] rich and varied contents. * Kent Bach, The Philosophical Quarterly *
This volume brings together some of the worlds most distinguished linguistically-minded philosophers and philosophically-minded linguists in an outstanding collection of new papers on what logical form is supposed to be and why it matters for the study of language. * Zoltan Szabo, Cornell University *

About Gerhard Preyer (University of Frankfurt)

Gerhard Preyer is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and editor of the journal ProtoSociology. Georg Peter is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, and with Gerhard Preyer edits the journal ProtoSociology.

Table of Contents

2. ABBREVIATION, SCOPE, ONTOLOGY ; 8. WHY IS SEQUENCE OF TENSE OBLIGATORY? ; 13. RUSSELL'S LOGICAL FORM, LF, AND TRUTH-CONDITIONS

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NLS9780199245550
9780199245550
019924555X
Logical Form and Language by Gerhard Preyer (University of Frankfurt)
New
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2002-03-07
524
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