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- Title
Logical Form and Truth-Conditions.
- Authors
IACONA, Andrea
- Abstract
This paper outlines a truth-conditional view of logical form, that is, a view according to which logical form is essentially a matter of truth-conditions. Section 1 provides some preliminary clarifications. Section 2 shows that the main motivation for the view is the fact that fundamental logical relations such as entailment or contradiction can formally be explained only if truth-conditions are formally represented. Sections 3 and 4 articulate the view and dwell on its affinity with a conception of logical form that has been defended in the past. Sections 5-7 draw attention to its impact on three major issues that concern, respectively, the extension of the domain of formal explanation, the semantics of tensed discourse, and the analysis of quantification.
- Subjects
FORM (Logic); AFFINITY (Kinship); INFORMATION theory; PHILOSOPHERS; DISCOURSE
- Publication
Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History & Foundations of Science, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 3, p439
- ISSN
0495-4548
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1387/theoria.4627