Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic: Foundations and Applications of Transparent Intensional Logic: 17 (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 17) - Softcover

Duží, Marie; Jespersen, Bjorn; Materna, Pavel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9400732783 ISBN 13: 9789400732780

Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

The book is about logical analysis of natural language. Since we humans communicate by means of natural language, we need a tool that helps us to understand in a precise manner how the logical and formal mechanisms of natural language work. Moreover, in the age of computers, we need to communicate both with and through computers as well. Transparent Intensional Logic is a tool that is helpful in making our communication and reasoning smooth and precise. It deals with all kinds of linguistic context in a fully compositional and anti-contextual way.

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“The text describes the origins and notations of a new symbolic system of variables and derives completed thoughts likely to be important to future research in Logic. The book is a welcome addition to any student’s logic library and or reading list at both graduate/undergraduate levels.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, November, 2013)

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July 2011 -- The Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic has presented Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic with its prestigious award for outstanding results of major scientific importance.


This volume sets out the foundations of Transparent Intensional Logic, together with many applications to a wide range of topics including formal semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Special attention is devoted to some topics that generally tend to be dealt with only in passing. They include, inter alia, notional attitudes, knowing whether, concepts (understood rigorously and non-mentalistically),
attitudes de re, and anaphora in hyperintensional contexts.

The overall programme is set out and placed in historical and systematic context. The programme consists in devising one overarching semantic theory for all sorts of discourse, whether colloquial, scientific, mathematical or logical. The semantic theory is a procedural one, according to which sense is an abstract, pre-linguistic procedure detailing what operations to apply to what procedural constituents to arrive at the product (if any) of the procedure. Such procedures are rigorously defined as so-called constructions residing in a platonic realm. The semantics is tailored to the hardest case, as constituted by hyperintensional contexts, and generalized from there to intensional and extensional contexts.

This anti-contextualist and fully compositional semantics is, to the best of our knowledge, the only one that deals with all kinds of context in a unique and systematic manner. The three authors have striven to write an accessible study of Transparent Intensional Logic that may be read by researchers and advanced students of logic, semantics, linguistics, informatics, computer science, and kindred disciplines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9400732783
• ISBN 13: 9789400732780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 563