18896 | Aristotle places terms at opposite ends, joined by a quantified copula [Aristotle, by Sommers] |
4730 | For Aristotle, the subject-predicate structure of Greek reflected a substance-accident structure of reality [Aristotle, by O'Grady] |
21400 | Stoics avoided universals by paraphrasing 'Man is...' as 'If something is a man, then it is...' [Stoic school, by Long] |
6020 | 'Man is a rational mortal animal' is equivalent to 'if something is a man, that thing is a rational mortal animal' [Sext.Empiricus] |
7729 | Frege replaced Aristotle's subject/predicate form with function/argument form [Frege, by Weiner] |
4975 | A thought can be split in many ways, so that different parts appear as subject or predicate [Frege] |
8645 | Convert "Jupiter has four moons" into "the number of Jupiter's moons is four" [Frege] |
6115 | Vagueness, and simples being beyond experience, are obstacles to a logical language [Russell] |
7528 | Leibniz bases everything on subject/predicate and substance/property propositions [Russell] |
7758 | 'Elizabeth = Queen of England' is really a predication, not an identity-statement [Russell, by Lycan] |
6092 | In a logically perfect language, there will be just one word for every simple object [Russell] |
6101 | Romulus does not occur in the proposition 'Romulus did not exist' [Russell] |
18276 | A statement's logical form derives entirely from its constituents [Wittgenstein] |
18743 | Wittgenstein says we want the grammar of problems, not their first-order logical structure [Wittgenstein, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18268 | Apparent logical form may not be real logical form [Wittgenstein] |
22434 | Reduction to logical forms first simplifies idioms and grammar, then finds a single reading of it [Quine] |
8358 | There are no rules for the exact logic of ordinary language, because that doesn't exist [Strawson,P] |
18893 | Translating into quantificational idiom offers no clues as to how ordinary thinkers reason [Sommers] |
7332 | There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson] |
3080 | Logical form is the part of a sentence structure which involves logical elements [Harman] |
3081 | A theory of truth in a language must involve a theory of logical form [Harman] |
3084 | Our underlying predicates represent words in the language, not universal concepts [Harman] |
16464 | We regiment to get semantic structure, for evaluating arguments, and understanding complexities [Stalnaker] |
8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
6339 | Logical form is the aspects of meaning that determine logical entailments [Horwich] |
2544 | Thoughts have a dual aspect: as they seem to introspection, and their underlying logical reality [McGinn] |
8072 | Sentences of apparent identical form can have different contextual meanings [Devlin] |
12220 | Is it the sentence-token or the sentence-type that has a logical form? [Fine,K] |
13632 | Finding the logical form of a sentence is difficult, and there are no criteria of correctness [Shapiro] |
18168 | 'Propositional functions' are propositions with a variable as subject or predicate [Maddy] |
10407 | Logical Form explains differing logical behaviour of similar sentences [Swoyer] |
10373 | Logical form can't dictate metaphysics, as it may propose an undesirable property [Schaffer,J] |
10754 | In proof-theory, logical form is shown by the logical constants [Rossberg] |
18741 | Logical formalization makes concepts precise, and also shows their interrelation [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
18905 | Propositions can be analysed as pairs of terms glued together by predication [Engelbretsen] |
18922 | Logical syntax is actually close to surface linguistic form [Engelbretsen] |