Single Idea 13821

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 5. Extensionalism]

Full Idea

Extensionality is built into the semantics of ordinary logic. When a name-letter is interpreted as denoting something, we just provide the object denoted. All that we provide for a one-place predicate-letter is the set of objects that it is true of..

Gist of Idea

Extensionality is built into ordinary logic semantics; names have objects, predicates have sets of objects

Source

David Bostock (Intermediate Logic [1997])

Book Reference

Bostock,David: 'Intermediate Logic' [OUP 1997], p.356


A Reaction

Could we keep the syntax of ordinary logic, and provide a wildly different semantics, much closer to real life? We could give up these dreadful 'objects' that Frege lumbered us with. Logic for processes, etc.