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| Logical constants: logical constants are also called logical particles or connectives, they are e.g. “and”; “or”; “if”; “then”; “not”. The expression constant is used, because the meaning of the logical links cannot change also in the translation into other languages, but always remains. For example, if one was to try to replace "and" with "or" in the case of a translation, mistakes would arise which could be determined, even if the vocabulary of the foreign language is not entirely known._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Laurence Jonathan Cohen on Logical Constants - Dictionary of Arguments
Meggle I 397 Logical Constants/Particles/Logic/Logic/Language/Cohen: Example The conclusion from "q" to "p > q" has no equivalent in natural language. I 402 "And" claims more than the truth of two subordinate clauses. The order is important: (1) The Republic was proclaimed and the old king died (2) The old king died and the Republic was proclaimed. "And"/Cohen: in addition to the expression of the conjunction of two truths, "and" indicates that the second truth to be listed is of the same kind, or belongs to the same series, or is of a kind which in turn belongs to the same set of connected kinds as the truth listed first. >Conjunction, >Disjunction, >Implicature/Cohen, >Assertions. L.Jonathan Cohen, Die logischen Partikel der natürlichen Sprache. In: Georg Meggle (Hrsg.) Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung Frankfurt 1979_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Cohen I Laurence Jonathan Cohen "Some Remarks on Grice’s Views about the Logical Particals of Natural Languages", in: Y. Bar-Hillel (Ed), Pragmatics of Natural Languages, Dordrecht 1971, pp. 50-68 In Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung, Georg Meggle, Frankfurt/M. 1979 Cohen II Laurence Jonathan Cohen "Mr. Strawson’s Analysis of Truth", Analysis 10 (1950) pp. 136-140 In Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994 Grice: > Meg I G. Meggle (Hg) Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung Frankfurt/M 1979 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28