Logic
David Lewis wrote Convention in order to use game theory to answer Williard van Orman Quine’s skeptical doubts about the conventionality of meaning. Quine’s skepticism was directed at the logical positivists’ conventional theory of meaning in the service of a conventional theory of logic. According to the logical positivists, logical truths were true and logical arguments valid by virtue of the meanings of the terms involved.
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Skyrms, B. (2011). Pragmatics, Logic and Information Processing. In: Benz, A., Ebert, C., Jäger, G., van Rooij, R. (eds) Language, Games, and Evolution. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6207. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18006-4_9
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