Overview
- Offers a new analysis of the notion of individual
- Introduces and discusses a new polar opposition of "conceptually correct-incorrect"
- Includes numerous examples and references to the history of logic
Part of the book series: UNIPA Springer Series (USS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Individuals and More
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The First Great Gap
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Not Just Names and Predicates
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Foundations of Aristotelean Logic
- Lukasiewicz’s Accomplishments and Failures
- Frege’s Reform
- Modern Notion of Well-formed Formula or Proposition
- Essentials of Tarskian Semantics
- What is an Individual
- Individuality and Substantiality
- Nelson Goodman’s Strange Predicates
- Non-mathematical Logic
- Propositional Attitudes Predicates
- In-out Making of the True and the False
- Adversative Constructions
- Causal Propositions
- Behavior of Negation
- About (above all) Miontague
- Nominal Tertia
- Recapitulation and Further Perspectives
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gianni Rigamonti graduated in 1965 (Milan State University) with a thesis on many-valued logics. He was a high school teacher until 1974, when he joined Palermo University, working in the Departments of Philosophy (1974–1986 and 2000–2009) and Mathematics (1986–2000). He retired in 2009. His research is in the foundations of mathematics, history of mathematics/physics, and philosophy of language.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Logic, Everyday Discourse, and Metaphysics
Authors: Gianni Rigamonti
Series Title: UNIPA Springer Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74598-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74597-4Published: 31 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74600-1Published: 01 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74598-1Published: 30 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2366-7516
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 108
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, general