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1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

Juliette Kennedy
Juliette Kennedy
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University of Helsinki
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The central concepts of the book are introduced: formalism freeness and logical entanglement.The stability of the syntax/semantics distinction is discussed, as is J. Burgess’s distinction between formal and linguistic semantics. A special kind of logical pluralism is introduced, and likened to the theme of multi-scalarityas defined in Mark Wilson’s work.

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formal semanticslinguistic semanticsformalism freenessentanglementsyntax/semantics distinctionlogical pluralismM. WilsonJ. Burgessformalism independence
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Gödel, Tarski and the Lure of Natural Language
Logical Entanglement, Formalism Freeness
 , pp. 1 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Introduction
  • Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki
  • Book: Gödel, Tarski and the Lure of Natural Language
  • Online publication: 03 December 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511998393.002
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  • Introduction
  • Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki
  • Book: Gödel, Tarski and the Lure of Natural Language
  • Online publication: 03 December 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511998393.002
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  • Introduction
  • Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki
  • Book: Gödel, Tarski and the Lure of Natural Language
  • Online publication: 03 December 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511998393.002
Available formats
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