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Language and Logic
A speculative and condition-theoretic study
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In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning.
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 2] 1985. xiv, 256 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 November 2011
Published online on 14 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–vi
- Table of contents | pp. vii–x
- Preface | pp. xi–xii
- Symbols and Abbreviations | pp. xiii–xiv
- Chapter I: Methodology, Contents, and Relevance | pp. 1–8
- Chapter II: From Possible Worlds to Human Action | pp. 9–40
- 1. Philosophy of mind, ontology, and reflection
- 2. The out-of-mind
- 3. The mind
- 4. Human action
- Chapter III: Speech Acts and Meanings | pp. 41–60
- 1. Meaning and speech acts
- 2. Basic speech acts
- 3. Semantics and pragmatics
- Chapter IV: Towards a Reflectionist and Condition-Theoretic Logic | pp. 61–128
- 1. The basis of logic
- 2. Intra-logical RL interpretations
- 3. Conditions
- 4. Truth
- Chapter V: Propositional Operators | pp. 129–216
- 1. Conditional and componential analyses
- 2. Conjunction
- 3. Truth, falsity, and possibility
- 4. Modality
- 5. Implication
- 6. Postliminaries
- Notes | pp. 217–228
- | pp. 229–250
- Index | pp. 251–256
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