Semantic Analysis and meaning
Again I'm quoting Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis: 41. [...] Consequently, if my contention about meaning is correct, then the first 'do' in 'Please do not do it!', unlike the second…
Again I'm quoting Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis: 41. [...] Consequently, if my contention about meaning is correct, then the first 'do' in 'Please do not do it!', unlike the second…
Onomatopoeia You may wonder what the word “Onomatopoeia” means, and so did I when I first saw it. It's one of those unnecessarily long foreign words which meaning is unguessable…
Interpretation I earlier wrote of the logical interpretation of subjects.1 There I suggested, following Russell, that the subject of a descriptive, active, meaningful (DAM) sentence should be interpreted as an…
[Discussing the type/token distinction or ambiguity] "I shall not in general try to eliminate these ambiguities by explicitly stating which sense is intended. Sometimes both senses are intended, sometimes not.…
Abstract I invent and explore a terminology about degrees of sentences, I explore how to negate sentences and sentence parts in english, I distinguish between verbs that can be used…
I was recently made aware of an odd fact. Modern logic's inventor, Frege, was not as adorable as many people perhaps think he was. Quoting IEP: Although he was a…
"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it." Jotted (in German) on the margins of…
I wrote a small guide about how to use truth tables to evaluate wff's. I explained two methods to do this. Page: Constructing truth tables - Filling in the wff's…