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Full Idea
A connective will possess the sense that it has by virtue of its competent users' finding certain rules of inference involving it to be primitively obvious.
Gist of Idea
The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference
Source
Ian Rumfitt ("Yes" and "No" [2000], III)
Book Ref
-: 'Mind' [-], p.787
A Reaction
Rumfitt cites Peacocke as endorsing this view, which characterises the logical connectives by their rules of usage rather than by their pure semantic value.