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I want to motivate and develop a version of the idea that the level of syntactical representation called “LF’ in Chomskyan grammar should be construed as instantiating the properties that philosophers have traditionally ascribed to logical form and as such makes a substantial contribution to semantics.1
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Neale, S. (1994). What is Logical Form? . In: Prawitz, D., Westerståhl, D. (eds) Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala. Synthese Library, vol 236. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8311-4_37
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