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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1987

Pages: 123-156

Series: Profiles

ISBN (Hardback): 9789027724021

Full citation:

Barry Richards, "Game-theoretical semantics and logical form", in: Jaakko Hintikka, Berlin, Springer, 1987

Game-theoretical semantics and logical form

Barry Richards

pp. 123-156

in: Jaakko Hintikka, Berlin, Springer, 1987

Abstract

Game-theoretical semantics of the Hintikka type might be seen as offering a new paradigm for truth-conditional semantics, that is, for defining the concept of truth-in-a-model. The familiar Tarskian approach is to proceed "inside out' by first defining truth-in-a-model for the atomic sentences of a language and then extending the definition to the language as a whole by adding a number of recursive clauses. In the case of formal languages like those of predicate logic the number of recursive clauses will coincide with the number of logical constants; but for more comprehensive languages there may also be recursive clauses of certain non-logical expressions. In general the truth conditions of a complex sentence will always be defined recursively on the basis of the truth conditions of its atomic subformulas.

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1987

Pages: 123-156

Series: Profiles

ISBN (Hardback): 9789027724021

Full citation:

Barry Richards, "Game-theoretical semantics and logical form", in: Jaakko Hintikka, Berlin, Springer, 1987