Fred Landman

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Structures for Semantics (1991)Hardcover - 1991, 31 October 1991

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Part of Series
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Part of Series
Eur
Print Length
371 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
31 Oct 1991
ISBN-10
0792312392
ISBN-13
9780792312390

Description

Formalization plays an important role in semantics. Doing semantics and following the literature requires considerable technical sophistica- tion and acquaintance with quite advanced mathematical techniques and structures. But semantics isn't mathematics. These techniques and structures are tools that help us build semantic theories. Our real aim is to understand semantic phenomena and we need the technique to make our understanding of these phenomena precise. The problems in semantics are most often too hard and slippery, to completely trust our informal understanding of them. This should not be taken as an attack on informal reasoning in semantics. On the contrary, in my view, very often the essential insight in a diagnosis of what is going on in a certain semantic phenomenon takes place at the informal level. It is very easy, however, to be misled into thinking that a certain informal insight provides a satisfying analysis of a certain problem; it will often turn out that there is a fundamental unclarity about what the informal insight actually is. Formalization helps to sharpen those insights and put them to the test.

Product Details

Author:
Fred Landman
Book Edition:
1991
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 October 1991
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 2.24 cm
ISBN-10:
0792312392
ISBN-13:
9780792312390
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
371
Publisher:
Weight:
716.68 gm

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