| 书目名称 | Foundations of Logico-Linguistics | | 副标题 | A Unified Theory of | | 编辑 | William S. Cooper | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | In 1962 a mimeographed sheet of paper fell into my possession. It had been prepared by Ernest Adams of the Philosophy Department at Berkeley as a handout for a colloquim. Headed ‘SOME FALLACIES OF FORMAL LOGIC‘ it simply listed eleven little pieces of reasoning, all in ordinary English, and all absurd. I still have the sheet, and quote a couple of the arguments here to give the idea. • If you throw switch S and switch T, the motor will start. There fore, either if you throw switch S the motor will start, or, if you throw switch T the motor will start . • It is not the case that if John passes history he will graduate. Therefore, John will pass history. The disconcerting thing about these inferences is, of course, that under the customary truth-functional interpretation of and, or, not, and if-then, they are supposed to be valid. What, if anything, is wrong? At first I was not disturbed by the examples. Having at that time consider able personal commitment to rationality in general and formal logic in par ticular, I felt it my duty and found myself easily able (or so I thought) to explain away most of them. But on reflection I had to admit that my expla nations had an ad hoc cha | | 出版日期 | Book 1978 | | 关键词 | Case Studies; computer; conjunctions; construction; foundation; fragment; future; logic; methodology; pragmat | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9820-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-277-0876-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-9820-9Series ISSN 0924-4662 Series E-ISSN 2215-034X | | issn_series | 0924-4662 | | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1978 |
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