QUANTIFICATIONAL ACCOUNTS OF LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE III. THE MODEL-THEORETIC ACCOUNT: QUANTIFICATIONAL ACCOUNT TRIUMPHANT?

• Authors: Ladislav Koreň
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This concluding study devoted to quantificational accounts of consequence and related logical properties deals with the model-theoretic account (MTA). In response to objections questioning its intuitive adequacy, it is argued that MTA does not aim to analyse “the” alleged intuitive notion of consequence, but aims to formally reconstruct one specific semantic account, according to which valid arguments preserve truth in virtue of their logic-semantic structure and irrespectively of particular semantic values of the non-logical vocabulary. So conceived, MTA is arguably superior to any other quantificational account, being based on a principled account of the semantic structure and the specific contribution of logical elements to it.

Keywords

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LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE; MODELS; QUANTIFICATIONAL ACCOUNTS; VALIDITY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 492 – 515

Contributors

author

Ladislav Koreň

• Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Hradec Králové, Náměstí Svobody 331, 500 03 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic