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Katz on analyticity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird
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Department of Psychology, University College London, London W.C.1
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Katz (1966) attempts to explicate the notion of analyticity on the basis of a theory of natural languages. This theory assumes that grammatical transformations do not affect semantic interpretations, which are performed on the underlying phrase markers. Hence, the interpretation of the conjunction of two co-ordinate clauses consists of the logical conjunction of their interpretations. The following two sentences have therefore identical interpretations:

1. The thief snatched the money and the clerk pressed the alarm.

2. The clerk pressed the alarm and the thief snatched the money.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 1967 , pp. 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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Katz, J. J. (1966). The Philosophy of Language. London & New York: Harper & Row.Google Scholar
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