BOOK-CHAPTER
Logic and entailment
Year: 2009 Oxford University Press eBooks Pages: 1-26 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Abstract
This chapter describes the basic notions of logic, entailment, truth value, bivalence and multivalence, truth‐value gap, proposition, logical form. It discusses the distinction between sentence types and utterance tokens and it introduces the notions of contextual anchoring and referential (intentional) keying. It ends with a discussion of the cognition‐dependent assignment of truth values.
Keywords:
Logical consequence Truth value Proposition Utterance Sentence Value (mathematics) Logical truth Tautology (logic) Computer science Linguistics Truth table Natural language processing Artificial intelligence Philosophy Epistemology Cognitive science Psychology Autoepistemic logic Description logic Multimodal logic
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Topics
linguistics and terminology studies
Social Sciences → Arts and Humanities → Language and Linguistics
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Social Sciences → Psychology → Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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