Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics

In 1973 a workshop was held at The University of Western Ontario on topics of common interest to philosophers and linguists. This volume con­ tains most of the papers presented at the workshop. Also included are previously unpublished essays by R. Dougherty and H. Lasnik as well as a comment on G. L...

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Other Authors: Hockney, D.J. (Editor), Harper, W.L. (Editor), Freed, B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1975, 1975
Edition:1st ed. 1975
Series:The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Counterfactuals and Comparative Possibility
  • Presuppositions
  • Incomplete Assertion and Belnap Connectives
  • Dimensions of Truth
  • Speaking of Nothing
  • The Structure of Efficacy
  • Harris and Chomsky at the Syntax-Semantics Boundary
  • Some Transformational Extensions of Montague Grammar
  • Hedges: A Study in Meaning Criteria and the Logic of Fuzzy Concepts
  • Comments: Lakoff’s Fuzzy Propositional Logic
  • On the Semantics of Negation
  • Verbs of Bitching