Language and Logic

A speculative and condition-theoretic study

Johan van der Auwera

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In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning.

[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 2] 1985. xiv, 256 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbcs.2

Table of Contents

Preface | p. xi

Symbols and Abbreviations | p. xiii

Chapter I: Methodology, Contents, and Relevance | p. 1

Chapter II: From Possible Worlds to Human Action | p. 9

1. Philosophy of mind, ontology, and reflection
2. The out-of-mind
3. The mind
4. Human action

Chapter III: Speech Acts and Meanings | p. 41

1. Meaning and speech acts
2. Basic speech acts
3. Semantics and pragmatics

Chapter IV: Towards a Reflectionist and Condition-Theoretic Logic | p. 61

1. The basis of logic
2. Intra-logical RL interpretations
3. Conditions
4. Truth

Chapter V: Propositional Operators | p. 129

1. Conditional and componential analyses
2. Conjunction
3. Truth, falsity, and possibility
4. Modality
5. Implication
6. Postliminaries

Notes | p. 217

Index | p. 251

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2018. The Meaning of if. In Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 17], ► pp. 105 ff.

Sperber, Dan & Ira A. Noveck

2004. Introduction. In Experimental Pragmatics, ► pp. 1 ff.

Schwenter, Scott A.

2001. Expectations and (in)sufficiency: Spanish como conditionals. Linguistics 39:4

Goldstein, Laurence

1988. Logic and reasoning. Erkenntnis 28:3 ► pp. 297 ff.

Hikins, James W. & Kenneth S. Zagacki

1988. Rhetoric, philosophy, and objectivism: An attenuation of the claims of the rhetoric of inquiry. Quarterly Journal of Speech 74:2 ► pp. 201 ff.

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