Logics and Falsifications A New Perspective on Constructivist Semantics /

• Main Author: Kapsner, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, 40
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Computational linguistics.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Philosophy of Language.

This volume examines the concept of falsification as a central notion of semantic theories and its effects on logical laws. The point of departure is the general constructivist line of argument that Michael Dummett has offered over the last decades. From there, the author examines the ways in which...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part 1. Background
• Introduction to Part One
• Constructivism
• Intuitionism
• Gaps, Gluts and Paraconsistency
• Part 2. Falsifications
• Introduction to Part Two
• From Proofs to Verifications, and on to Falsifications
• Falsificationism
• Part 3. Logics
• Introduction to Part Three
• Stage Five: Pure Falsificationism and Dual Intuitionistic Logic
• Stage Two: Expanded Verificationism and the Logic N3
• Stage Four
• Stage Three: Hybrid Strategies
• Summary
• Appendix.