An Essay in Universal Semantics
By: by Achille C. Varzi
Series: Topoi Library -- 1; Topoi Library -- 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9789048151868; 9789401592437
Subjects: Linguistics; Philosophy (General); Logic; Symbolic and mathematical Logic; Philosophy; Semantics
Description: This book is a study of the foundations of model-theoretic semantics. Its central thesis is that one does not need to assume a perfect structural fit between languages and their models in order to characterise the basic semantic notions. In particular, truth-value gaps and gluts can be explained away as local phenomena that do not bring logical disaster in their wake. Varzi's detailed and original account is based on a generalisation of supervaluationary techniques and is illustrated with reference to a range of different types of examples, from sentential logic to type theory. Audience: The book is self-contained and will appeal to philosophers, logicians, linguists and computer scientists.
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