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This introduction is a short critical presentation of the topic and main arguments of Andrea Iacona’s book Logical Form. Furthermore, it summarizes the commentators’ views on two central issues: Iacona’s rejection of the uniqueness thesis, i.e. his claim that no single notion of logical form can be adequate to the tasks that logical form has been supposed to perform, and the relation between a sentence’s logical form and its truth conditions.

Introduction

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This introduction is a short critical presentation of the topic and main arguments of Andrea Iacona’s book Logical Form. Furthermore, it summarizes the...

Introduction

Publié en ligne: 29 janv. 2021

Pages: 199 - 208

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2020-0009

Mots clés
Logical form, natural language semantics, semantic interpretation, syntactic structure, truth conditions

© 2020 Diego Marconi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Introduction

Publié en ligne: 29 janv. 2021

Pages: 199 - 208

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2020-0009

Mots clésLogical form, natural language semantics, semantic interpretation, syntactic structure, truth conditions

© 2020 Diego Marconi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Logical form, natural language semantics, semantic interpretation, syntactic structure, truth conditions