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Logic & Natural Language: On Plural Reference and Its Semantic and Logical Significance

Logic & Natural Language: On Plural Reference and Its Semantic and Logical Significance

Ben-Yami, Hanoch

Paperback

Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138273805
ISBN13: 9781138273801
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Frege's invention of the predicate calculus has been the most influential event in the history of modern logic. The calculus' place in logic is so central that many philosophers think, in fact, of it when they think of logic. This book challenges the position in contemporary logic and philosophy of language of the predicate calculus claiming that it is based on mistaken assumptions. Ben-Yami shows that the predicate calculus is different from natural language in its fundamental semantic characteristics, primarily in its treatment of reference and quantification, and that as a result the calculus is inadequate for the analysis of the semantics and logic of natural language.

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