Handbook of Philosophical Logic

Volume IV: Topics in the Philosophy of Language

Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

733 Seiten

2011 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-7021-8 (ISBN)

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conceptual, realist) theories of predication. Chapter IV.4 centers on an important class of expressions used for predication in connection with quantities: mass expressions. This chapter reviews the most well-known approaches to mass terms and the ontological proposals related to them. In addition to quantification and predication, matters of reference have constituted the other overriding theme for semantic theories in both philosophical logic and the semantics of natural languages. Chapter IV.5 of how the semantics of proper names and descrip presents an overview tions have been dealt with in recent theories of reference. Chapter IV.6 is concerned with the context-dependence of reference, in particular, with the semantics of indexical expressions. The topic of Chapter IV.7 is related to predication as it surveys some of the central problems of ascribing propositional attitudes to agents. Chap ter IV.8 deals with the analysis of the main temporal aspects of natural language utterances. Together these two chapters give a good indication of the intricate complexities that arise once modalities of one or the other sort enter on the semantic stage. in philosophical Chapter IV.9 deals with another well-known topic logic: presupposition, an issue on the borderline of semantics and prag matics. The volume closes with an extensive study of the Liar paradox and its many implications for the study of language (as for example, self reference, truth concepts and truth definitions).

to Volume IV.- IV.I Quantifiers in Formal and Natural Languages.- IV.2 Property Theories.- IV.3 Philosophical Perspectives on Formal Theories of Predication.- IV.4 Mass Expressions.- IV.5 Reference and Information Content: Names and Descriptions.- IV.6 Indexicals.- IV.7 Propositional Attitudes.- IV.8 Tense and Time.- IV.9 Presupposition.- IV.10 Semantics and the Liar Paradox.- Name Index.- Table of Contents to Volume I, II, and III.

Reihe/Serie	Synthese Library ; 167
Zusatzinfo	733 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 223 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
ISBN-10	94-010-7021-0 / 9401070210
ISBN-13	978-94-010-7021-8 / 9789401070218
Zustand	Neuware