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Language and Deductive Logic

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Foundations of Logico-Linguistics

Part of the book series: Synthese Language Library ((SLAP,volume 2))

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We have seen how the idea of an information state leads to a way of analyzing languages on the pragmatic level. The role of logic in the analysis will be explored next. It will be suggested that a companion theory of logic does indeed exist provided suitable idealizations are presupposed.

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© 1978 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland

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Cooper, W.S. (1978). Language and Deductive Logic. In: Foundations of Logico-Linguistics. Synthese Language Library, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9820-9_4

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