Logic, Everyday Discourse, and Metaphysics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse. It offers a new analysis of the notion of individual, suggesting that this notion is linguistic, not ontological, and that anything denoted by a proper name in a well-functioning language game is an individual. It further posits that everyday discourse is non-compositional, i.e., its complex expressions are not just the result of putting simpler ones together but react on the latter, modifying their meaning through feedback. The book theorizes that in everyday discourse, there is no algebra of truth values, but the latter can be both input and output of something which has no truth value at all. It suggests that an elementary proposition of everyday discourse (defined as having exactly one predicate) can, in principle, be indefinitely expanded by adding new components, belonging neither to subject nor to predicate, but remain elementary. This book is of interest to logicians and philosophers of language.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	UNIPA Springer Series
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2021
Authors:	Gianni Rigamonti
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	108
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-074600-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	3-03-074600-3
Barcode:	9783030746001

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