On the Notion of Logical Form

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2014.06.006

Abstract

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

CLC Number:

B152

LIN Yunqin. On the Notion of Logical Form[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2014, 14(06): 34-44.

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