Meaning and Necessity
Meaning and Necessity

Author: Rudolf Carnap

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1988-02-15

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0226093476

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"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal

Rudolf Carnap: Studies in Semantics
Rudolf Carnap: Studies in Semantics

Author: Steve Awodey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-07-18

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 0192894870

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Volume 7 of the Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap presents Studies in Semantics, which comprises three interlocking books: Introduction to Semantics (1942), Formalization of Logic (1942), and Meaning and Necessity (1947). Along with textual notes, the editors' introduction places Carnap's whole semantic project in its various contexts.

Logical Syntax of Language
Logical Syntax of Language

Author: Rudolf Carnap

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-23

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1317830601

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This is IV volume of eight in a series on Philosophy of the Mind and Language. For nearly a century mathematicians and logicians have been striving hard to make logic an exact science. But a book on logic must contain, in addition to the formulae, an expository context which, with the assistance of the words of ordinary language, explains the formulae and the relations between them; and this context often leaves much to be desired in the matter of clarity and exactitude. Originally published in 1937, the purpose of the present work is to give a systematic exposition of such a method, namely, of the method of " logical syntax".

Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism
Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism

Author: James McElvenny

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1474425046

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This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889 - 1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.

The Cambridge Companion to Carnap
The Cambridge Companion to Carnap

Author: Michael Friedman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-12-20

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 0521840155

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This book explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.

Logic in Grammar
Logic in Grammar

Author: Gennaro Chierchia

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0199697973

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In a fundamental investigation of language and human reasoning, Gennaro Chierchia looks at how syntactic and inferential processes interact through the study of polarity sensitive and free choice items. He reformulates the semantics of focus and scope and the pragmatics of implicature as part of the recursive semantic system.

The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap
The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap

Author: Alberto Coffa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780521447072

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J. Albert Coffa traces the roots of logical positivism in a semantic tradition that arose in opposition to Kant's theory that a priori knowledge is based on pure intuition.

Logical Empiricism at Its Peak
Logical Empiricism at Its Peak

Author: Maria Neurath

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-19

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1000525066

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First Published in 1996. This volume reprints pieces from the Vienna Circle period between the manifesto and the adoption of semantics, as well as two commentaries. During this period, the logical empiricists were the most ambitious and the most confident about the success of their enterprise. The first section consists of four ideological classics, The second section reprints three papers on physicalism. The third section consists of three papers on logic and the fourth on reprints three papers on truth, induction, and confirmation.