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The Logic of Anaphora
Peregrin, Jaroslav
The paper addresses foundational questions concerning the dynamic semantics of natural language based on dynamic logic of the Groenendijko-Stokhofian kind. Discussing a series of model calculi of increasing complecity, it shows in detail how usual semantics of dynamic logic can be seen as emerging from the account for certain inferential patterns of natural language, namely those governing anaphora. In this way, the current 'dynamic turn' of logic is argued to be reasonably seen not as the product of changing the focus of logic from the relation of entailment to "a structure of human cognitive action" (van Benthem), but rather as merely another step in our long-term effort to master more and more inferential patterns.
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The Logica Yearbook 1999
Childers, Timothy
The Logica Yearbook 1999 contains a selection of papers delivered at the LOGICA 1999 conference. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics in philosophical logic, reflecting the character of the conference. Contributors include Stuart Shapiro, Goran Sundholm, Jan Wolenski, Wlodek Rabinowicz, J.H. Sobel and Jaroslav Peregrin.
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Simple Concepts and Simple Expressions
Materna, Pavel
Materna's explication of concepts as abstract procedures, i.e., constructions, has to meet the following problem: Does it hold that analysing expressions of a natural language we have to associate simple expressions (mostly: consisting of one word only) with simple concepts, i.e., constructions which are not analysable into other constructions? Some necessary definitions and principles.
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