Single Idea 11212

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives]

Full Idea

A connective will possess the sense that it has by virtue of its competent users' finding certain rules of inference involving it to be primitively obvious.

Gist of Idea

The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference

Source

Ian Rumfitt ("Yes" and "No" [2000], III)

Book Reference

-: 'Mind' [-], p.787


A Reaction

Rumfitt cites Peacocke as endorsing this view, which characterises the logical connectives by their rules of usage rather than by their pure semantic value.