Logics and Languages (Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Language) - Softcover

Cresswell, Max

 
9781138686489: Logics and Languages (Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Language)
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ISBN 10: 1138686484 ISBN 13: 9781138686489
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Originally published in 1973, this book shows that methods developed for the semantics of systems of formal logic can be successfully applied to problems about the semantics of natural languages; and, moreover, that such methods can take account of features of natural language which have often been thought incapable of formal treatment, such as vagueness, context dependence and metaphorical meaning.

Parts 1 and 2 set out a class of formal languages and their semantics. Parts 3 and 4 show that these formal languages are rich enought to be used in the precise description of natural languages.

Appendices describe some of the concepts discussed in the text.

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M. J. Cresswell

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138686484
ISBN 13 
9781138686489
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288

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