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One of the central issues of analytic philosophy and especially the theory of language is the concept of logical form. As typically understood this concept covers investigations into universal logical features underlying languages. However, from Frege and Russell onwards logical form analysts were no longer confined to such narrow linguistic perspectives. For them, investigating the logical form of language took the wider philosophical perspective of trying to understand language as our principal means for representing the world. From Russell's theory of definite descriptions to Davidson's truth-theoretical analyses of adverbial modification, citation, and reported speech, to lay open the logical structures underlying language is seen as a way of revealing the structure and features of the thereby represented world. Seventeen specially written essays by eminent philosophers and linguists appear for the first time in this anthology. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which illuminate the lively current debate about this topic.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Grammar, syntax & morphology

• Full title: Logical Form and Language
• Author: Gerhard Preyer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 524
• EAN: 9780199245550
• ISBN: 019924555X
• ID: 04530091
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 788 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 160 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. March 2002

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