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Semantics, in philosophy, often refers to "relation between signs and the things to which they refer and is seen, often, within the school of rhetoric.
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How much recursion is needed in the set in order to make a reliable conclusion? [closed]
In formal systems, recursive definitions must be fully specified to ensure the reliability of conclusions.
However, in natural human thinking, we often rely on context-dependent partial recursion to ...
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Truth Tables vs Metalanguage
I've seen in the book "Logic for everyone" by Jason Decker that he writes the Propositions on the header of the tables as meta-Propositions.
E.g. for the formula
A→C
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Do variables belong to metalanguage
I'm learning the nuance between using and mentioning. Maybe what I'm going to write is a result of misunderstanding.
The object language (OL) contains names of objects from a domain, a assumed real ...
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Can contradiction be treated as a structural feature of meaning, rather than a failure of logic? [closed]
In traditional logical and semantic systems, contradiction is often seen as something to be eliminated — a signal that the reasoning process has gone wrong.
But what if contradiction is a structural ...
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Identifying a name with the designated thing (in the context of Being)
My question is about the following perplexing passage of Plato's “Sophist,” in which young Theaetetus and the Stranger of Elea, a disciple of Eleatic philosophy, debate about certain problems of the ...
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Can Tarski's statement about "true statement" be improved?
A sentence is true if and only if what the sentence describes is the case.
My main doubt started when I realised that we are comparing sentence, a collection of words, to reality, the case. Something ...
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What is the difference between Ordinary Meaning, Profound Meaning, and True Meaning? [closed]
While discussing the question Is Machine our new God?!, I found myself explaining a distinction I hadn't consciously articulated before: the difference between Ordinary Meaning, Profound Meaning, and ...
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A question about structure of descriptions of objects ,can they be broken down into non divisible pieces?
Think of a description of an object, having qualities Q(a),Q(b).
Q(a) can also have a description of it's own which one might try to describe to another person using a common language, and while ...
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Is the phrase “infinitely divisible” describing just one property or two properties by condensation? [closed]
Is the phrase “infinitely divisible” describing just one property or two properties by condensation? I ask because the phrase “infinitely divisible” can be interpreted as the conjunction of two ...
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What is a logical connective?
Peter Smith in chapter 8 of "An Introduction to Formal Logic" introduces three sentential/logical connectives: 'And', 'Or' and 'Not'. He gives a brief exposition on such natural language ...
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How does descriptive (folk) metaethics tell us about moral properties and facts?
Metaethics typically investigates two broad domains:
(a) The semantics of moral discourse:
(i) Are moral utterances truth-apt?
(ii) Do they have truth-makers?
(b) The metaphysics of morality:
(i) Do ...
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Did Cantor mean something different by his concept of transfinite numbers, from what is meant by (most) set theorists afterwards/down to this day?
For that they have shorn absolute infinity of its mystical significance, have set theorists since Cantor ended up meaning something sufficiently different by the phrase "absolute infinity" ...
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If there are set-theoretic "possible worlds," are there set-theoretic "possible situations"?
The SEP entry on situations in natural-language semantics reads:
Situation semantics was developed as an alternative to possible worlds semantics. In situation semantics, linguistic expressions are ...
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How would you adapt modern day model-theoretic formal semantics, to allow for usual/unusual meanings? [closed]
In language , we can employ usual meanings of language-tokens and unusual meaning of language-tokens
without the notion of "usual meaning" of language-tokens, communication would be a ...
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Alternatives to alethic/truth-conditional/theoretic semantics for natural languages (especially intensional ones)
Good evening, everyone.
Since Frege the meaning of sentences has been conditioned to its truth-condition (be it as a truth-value being the referent of a sentence or truth being a property of a true ...
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