Triviality Results and the Relationship between Logical and Natural Languages

• Published in: Mind Vol. 128; no. 510; pp. 485 - 526
• Main Authors: Khoo, Justin, Mandelkern, Matthew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 01.04.2019

Inquiry into the meaning of logical terms in natural language (‘and’, ‘or’, ‘not’, ‘if’) has generally proceeded along two dimensions. On the one hand, semantic theories aim to predict native speaker intuitions about the natural language sentences involving those logical terms. On the other hand, lo...