"Hence"--An Iconoclastic Study of Logic, Language and Argumentation.

Autor/in	Van der Auwera, Johan
Titel	"Hence"--An Iconoclastic Study of Logic, Language and Argumentation.
Quelle	(1978), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Connected Discourse; Discourse Analysis; Epistemology; Inferences; Intellectual History; Logic; Logical Thinking; Persuasive Discourse; Semantics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Diskursanalyse; Erkenntnistheorie; Inference; Inferenz; Geistesgeschichte; Logik; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Semantik
Abstract	An analysis of the role of the word "hence" and its near-synonyms examines the relationship between logic as a science, as a natural language, and as argumentation. The analysis is done in the context of elementary propositional logic. The first section is a limited discussion of the standard logician's treatment relegating "hence" to the realm of non-truth-functionality: that is, the truth-value of the compound proposition is not simply a function of the truth-values of its components. The second section advocates treating "hence" as a propositional logical connective and outlines the argument, based on natural language-oriented semantics. The third section offers a partial explanation of why standard propositional logic has been accepted by generations of logicians and non-logicians despite the vagueness concerning its relation to natural language and reasoning. The lack of interest in and respect for the multi-faceted linguistic role of the word "hence" is unwarranted. (MSE)
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Update	2004/1/01