Logical Form Between Logic and Natural Language /

• Main Author: Iacona, Andrea (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 393
• Subjects: Logic.; Semantics.; Language and languages-Philosophy.; Philosophy.; Mathematical logic.; Philosophy of Language.; History of Philosophy.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.

Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. The early history of logical form
• 2. The ideal of logical perfection
• 3. Formal languages and natural languages
• 4. Logical form and syntactic structure
• 5. Logical form and truth conditions
• 6. Logical knowledge vs knowledge of logical form
• 7. Validity
• 8. Quanti ed sentences
• 9. Further issues concerning quanti cation
• Afterword.