Truth, Syntax and Modality
Author: Lev D. Beklemishev
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2000-04-01
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0080954790
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Existence, Truth, and Probability
Author: Hugues Leblanc
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780873953801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book includes some of the most original and influential contributions to logic and the philosophy of logic during the past twenty years. It contains thirty-five essays, many of which started new trends in logic. For example, some of the essays in Part One gave birth to what is now known as free logic, and some of the essays in Part Two were among the earliest contributions to what is now known as truth-value semantics. The essays in Part Three are contributions to and improvements of already extant logics, such as intuitionistic logic, natural deduction, and the logic of sequents. Introductions to the parts of the book cover the history of the contributions and their importance. The essays have been thoroughly revised since their publication in learned journals.
Bertrand Russell on Modality and Logical Relevance
Author: Jan Dejnožka
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-13
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0429861710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1999, this volume re-examines Bertrand Russell’s views on modal logic and logical relevance, arguing that Russell does in fact accommodate modality and modal logic. The author, Jan Dejnožka, draws together Russell’s comments and perspectives from throughout his canon in order to demonstrate a coherent view on logical modality and logical relevance. To achieve this, Dejnožka explores questions including whether Russell has a possible worlds logic, Rescher’s case against Russell, Russell’s three levels of modality and the motives and origins of Russell’s theory of modality.
Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
Author: Werner Abraham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1107021227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.
Building Modality with Syntax
Author: Camille Denizot
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-09-18
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 3110778386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in linguistics. This book investigates modality from a syntactic viewpoint and with a bottom-up approach. A strong focus of the book is the interaction between the different linguistic tools that build modality (moods, modal verbs, modal adverbs, etc.), taking both the role of syntactic structure and the compositionality of modal meanings into account. The volume comprises corpus-based studies devoted to several syntactic aspects of modality in Ancient Greek, within different theoretical frameworks. The chapters shed new light on different modal categories (e.g. epistemicity, possibility, counterfactuality, evidentiality, subjectivity) and show how these modal meanings arise from the combination of different linguistic devices in specific syntactic contexts (e.g. combinations of modal elements, types of main and dependent clauses, types of illocutionary acts, etc.). By approaching modality from a different perspective and providing an up-to-date discussion of several aspects of modality, the book makes a significant contribution to current debates.
Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
Author: Werner Abraham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1108861083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.
Truth or Consequences
Author: M. Dunn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9400906811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this collection are written by students, colleagues, and friends of Nuel Belnap to honor him on his sixtieth birthday. Our original plan was to include pieces from fonner students only, but we have deviated from this ever so slightly for a variety of personal and practical reasons. Belnap's research accomplishments are numerous and well known: He has founded (together with Alan Ross Anderson) a whole branch of logic known as "relevance logic." He has made contributions of fundamental importance to the logic of questions. His work in modal logic, fonnal pragmatics, and the theory of truth has been highly influential. And the list goes on. Belnap's accomplishments as a teacher are also distinguished and well known but, by virtue of the essential privacy of the teaching relationship, not so well understood. We would like to reflect a little on what makes him such an outstanding teacher.
The Revision Theory of Truth
Author: Anil Gupta
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780262071444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this rigorous investigation into the logic of truth Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap explain how the concept of truth works in both ordinary and pathological contexts. The latter include, for instance, contexts that generate Liar Paradox. Their central claim is that truth is a circular concept. In support of this claim they provide a widely applicable theory (the "revision theory") of circular concepts. Under the revision theory, when truth is seen as circular both its ordinary features and its pathological features fall into a simple understandable pattern. The Revision Theory of Truth is unique in placing truth in the context of a general theory of definitions. This theory makes sense of arbitrary systems of mutually interdependent concepts, of which circular concepts, such as truth, are but a special case.
Where Semantics meets Pragmatics
Author: Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 008046260X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Current Research in the Semantic / Pragmatics Interface series has carved out a new and vibrant area of research. This volume offers the reader a state-of-the-art record of new and established research in this area. Von Heusinger and Turner's careful selection of topics and contributors ensures that each chapter integrates semantic and pragmatic facts into a single theory, that each finds an adequate division of theoretical labour and that each attempts to design and corroborate an elegant account of meaning and use that would be compatible with other aspects of human behaviour. Importantly, each paper in the volume focuses on linguistic detail, not merely abstract discussions of a theoretical nature. Thus each paper makes extensive reference to the semantic and pragmatic facts of English and also other languages. This reference gives each of the proposed analyses a more adequate empirical edge and a sharper theoretical focus. This book is a must for all scholars and students interested in the new and vibrant discipline of semantics-pragmatics and to anyone who is fascinated by the prospect of working beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of linguistics and the philosophy of language. The chapters in this volume originate from a workshop at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, held at Michigan State University.
Extensions of First-Order Logic
Author: Maria Manzano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-03-29
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780521354356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to many-sorted logic as an extension of first-order logic.
