Doing Worlds with Words

Formal Semantics without Formal Metaphysics

J. Peregrin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-4618-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Synthese Library ; 253
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 240 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	90-481-4618-6 / 9048146186
ISBN-13	978-90-481-4618-5 / 9789048146185
Zustand	Neuware