Logic, Language and Meaning
Logic, Language and Meaning Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is…
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Logic, Language and Meaning
Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. It provides both a syntactic and a semantic approach to inference and validity, and discusses their relationship. Both volumes provide exercises and their solutions.Volume 1, Introduction to Logic, begins with a historical overview and then offers a thorough introduction to standard propositional and first-order predicate logic.
The pragmatic approach to Although language and meaning receive special attention, this introduction is also accessible to those with a more general interest in logic.In addition, the volume contains a survey of such topics as definite descriptions, restricted quantification, second-order logic, and many-valued logic.