Logic, Language, and Meaning (Volume 1): Introduction to Logic

Gamut, L. T. F.

ISBN 10: 0226280853 / ISBN 13: 9780226280851

Published by University Of Chicago Press, 1991

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Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780226280851.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Logic, Language, and Meaning (Volume 1): Introduction to Logic
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226280853
• ISBN 13: 9780226280851
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 450 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions.

Volume 1, Introduction to Logic, begins with a historical overview and then offers a thorough introduction to standard propositional and first-order predicate logic. It provides both a syntactic and a semantic approach to inference and validity, and discusses their relationship. Although language and meaning receive special attention, this introduction is also accessible to those with a more general interest in logic.

In addition, the volume contains a survey of such topics as definite descriptions, restricted quantification, second-order logic, and many-valued logic. The pragmatic approach to non-truthconditional and conventional implicatures are also discussed. Finally, the relation between logic and formal syntax is treated, and the notions of rewrite rule, automation, grammatical complexity, and language hierarchy are explained.

About the Author

L. T. F. Gamut is a collective pseudonym for J. F. A. K. van Benthem, professor of mathematical logic; J. A. G. Groenendijk, associate professor of philosophy and computational linguistics; D. H. J. de Jongh, associate professor of mathematics and philosophy; M. J. B. Stokhof, associate professor of philosophy and computational linguistics, all at the University of Amsterdam, and H. J. Verkuyl, professor of linguistics at the University of Utrecht.