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Diss: Cognitive Sci/Semantics: Aptekman: 'From Logic to Linguistics...'
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From Logic to Linguistics: A Semantic analysis of SI
Message 1: From Logic to Linguistics: A Semantic analysis of SI
Date: 12-Jun-2007
From: Jeanne Aptekman <jeanne.aptekmangmail.com>
Subject: From Logic to Linguistics: A Semantic analysis of SI
Institution: EHESS
Program: PhD in Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2006
Author: Jeanne Aptekman
Dissertation Title: From Logic to Linguistics: A Semantic analysis of SI
Dissertation URL: http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~aptekman/docs/Jeanne_Aptekman_These_2006.pdf
Linguistic Field(s):
Cognitive Science
Semantics
Dissertation Director:
Daniel Andler
Bernard Victorri
Dissertation Abstract:
Conditionals hold an important place in logical questioning about itself.In analysing the numerous theories about material conditional, logicattempts to grasp the logical implication as it appears intuitively to us,which is a necessary entailment between an antecedent and a consequent. Butat the same time arises the question of the possibility of offering atreatment for ordinary conditionals using the material conditional oflogic, or the reforms that have been proposed for it. However, theconditionals, which we will approach here in their paradigmatic form ofSI-clauses, do not always express a logical entailment and these are twodifferent questions. That is the reason why we wanted to leave aside thephilosophico-logical tradition to propose an analysis of the meaning of SIin a clearly semantic prospective. Within a large polysemy, a significantunity comes out of this approach, which allows us to take a fresh look atthe debate in psychology of reasoning about logical connectives.
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