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Single Idea 18922
[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form
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Full Idea
The underlying logical syntax of language is close to the surface syntax of ordinary language.
Gist of Idea
Logical syntax is actually close to surface linguistic form
Source
George Engelbretsen (Trees, Terms and Truth [2005], 5)
Book Ref
'The Old New Logic', ed/tr. Oderberg,David S. [MIT 2005], p.47
A Reaction
This is the boast of the Term logicians, in opposition to the strained and unnatural logical forms of predicate logic, which therefore don't give a good account of the way ordinary speakers reason. An attractive programme. 'Terms' are the key.
The
14 ideas
from George Engelbretsen
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18913
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Traditional term logic struggled to express relations
[Engelbretsen]
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18907
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Term logic rests on negated terms or denial, and that propositions are tied pairs
[Engelbretsen]
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18905
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Propositions can be analysed as pairs of terms glued together by predication
[Engelbretsen]
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18906
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Negating a predicate term and denying its unnegated version are quite different
[Engelbretsen]
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18908
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Standard logic only negates sentences, even via negated general terms or predicates
[Engelbretsen]
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18912
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Was logic a branch of mathematics, or mathematics a branch of logic?
[Engelbretsen]
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18917
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Existence and nonexistence are characteristics of the world, not of objects
[Engelbretsen]
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18916
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Facts are not in the world - they are properties of the world
[Engelbretsen]
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18915
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If facts are the truthmakers, they are not in the world
[Engelbretsen]
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18919
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There are no 'falsifying' facts, only an absence of truthmakers
[Engelbretsen]
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18918
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Terms denote objects with properties, and statements denote the world with that property
[Engelbretsen]
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18920
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'Socrates is wise' denotes a sentence; 'that Socrates is wise' denotes a proposition
[Engelbretsen]
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18921
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Individuals are arranged in inclusion categories that match our semantics
[Engelbretsen]
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18922
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Logical syntax is actually close to surface linguistic form
[Engelbretsen]
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