• Truth-conditional semantics is an approach to semantics of natural language that sees meaning (or at least the meaning of assertions) as being the same...
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    like truth-conditional semantics, and to the meaning of particular expressions, like the semantics of the word fairy. As a field of inquiry, semantics has...
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  • In formal semantics, truth-value semantics is an alternative to Tarskian semantics. It has been primarily championed by Ruth Barcan Marcus, H. Leblanc...
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  • truth-conditional semantics is unduly limited in its account of full sentence meaning. While they are not on the whole hostile to truth-conditional semantics...
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  • truth, validity, and logical consequence. While logical syntax concerns the formal rules for constructing well-formed expressions, logical semantics establishes...
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  • In semantics and pragmatics, a truth condition is the condition under which a sentence is true. For example, "It is snowing in Nebraska" is true precisely...
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  • renamed as O-Marked conditionals. Biscuit conditionals (also known as relevance or speech act conditionals) are conditionals where the truth of the consequent...
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  • Dummett argued against the kind of truth-conditional semantics presented by Davidson. Instead, he argued that basing semantics on assertion conditions avoids...
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    The material conditional (also known as material implication) is a binary operation commonly used in logic. When the conditional symbol → {\displaystyle...
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  • meaning. Inferential role semantics is sometimes contrasted to truth-conditional semantics. Semantic inferentialism is related to logical expressivism and...
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  • languages, which involves treating "truth" as a primitive, rather than a defined, concept. (See truth-conditional semantics.) Tarski developed the theory to...
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  • will likely be inconsistent. Inferential role semantics Truth-conditional semantics Proof-Theoretic Semantics, at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
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  • formal semantics, and philosophy of language. They were first discussed as a problem for the material conditional analysis of conditionals, which treats...
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  • Goldberg, however, make an argument against generative grammar and truth-conditional semantics. As is elementary for Lakoffian–Langackerian Cognitive Linguistics...
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  • proposed by Gilles Fauconnier corresponding to possible worlds in truth-conditional semantics. The main difference between a mental space and a possible world...
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  • arguments have been taken to show that no truth-functional operator will suffice as a semantics for indicative conditionals. In the mid-20th century, work by...
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  • Corresponding conditional Counterfactual conditional Dynamic semantics Import-Export Indicative conditional Logical consequence Material conditional Graham Priest...
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  • approaches generalize the concept of truth conditionality or treat it as epiphenomenal. For instance in dynamic semantics, knowing the meaning of a sentence...
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  • because they contain their own truth predicates. Donald Davidson used it as the foundation of his truth-conditional semantics and linked it to radical interpretation...
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  • concept as a metaphor for human psychology. Early Wittgenstein Truth-conditional semantics Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889—1951) (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)...
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  • Linguistic entailment (category Natural language conditionals)
    (if unlikely) for a cat to not chase mice. Entailments arise from the semantics of linguistic expressions. Entailment contrasts with the pragmatic notion...
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  • "Conceptual Role Semantics" (online). Tarski, Alfred. (1944). "The Semantical Conception of Truth". PDF. Davidson, D. (2001) Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation...
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    approaches which pair a classical compositional semantics with a robust pragmatics. In formal languages, truth functions are represented by unambiguous symbols...
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    interpretation of utterances. Her 1975 book Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics advocated a pragmatic approach to presuppositions. In her longstanding...
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  • standard relational semantics for modal logic, formulas are assigned truth values relative to a possible world. A formula's truth value at one possible...
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  • has attracted interest because it does not conform to accepted truth-conditional semantics, the conditions which determine whether or not a statement is...
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  • context. This property of update semantics has led to its widespread application to presuppositions, modals, and conditionals. An update with φ {\displaystyle...
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  • implication" operator in classical truth-functional logic, namely the notion of relevance between antecedent and conditional of a true implication. This idea...
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    Logic (redirect from Science of truth)
    calculi. A semantics is a system for mapping expressions of a formal language to their denotations. In many systems of logic, denotations are truth values...
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    philosophy, where "cognitive" has to do only with formal rules and truth-conditional semantics. The earliest entries for the word "cognitive" in the OED take...
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