当代外语研究 ›› 2014, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (06): 34-44.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2014.06.006

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On the Notion of Logical Form

林允清   

  • 出版日期:2014-06-28 发布日期:2020-07-25
  • 作者简介:林允清,北京航空航天大学外国语学院教授、博士生导师。主要研究方向为理论语言学、语言哲学、逻辑推理。电子邮箱:ylin@buaa.edu.cn

On the Notion of Logical Form

LIN Yunqin   

  1. Beihang University
  • Online:2014-06-28 Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: The notion of logical form plays a central role in the philosophy of language and in linguistics. But what logical form is has not been clear. In this paper I first survey the uses of logical form, and show that this notion has no well-defined meaning. I then discuss three main motivations behind invoking logical form, and argue that two of them are unwarranted, and the third can be satisfied by an approach to the logic of ordinary language that is based on the idea of sentence frames, rather than on the traditional idea of subject and predicate.

Key words: ordinary language,logiC,inference,logical form

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