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Mar 22, 2022 · Let's take a first pass at the title question. If by "spoken language" you roughly mean "natural language" and by "logical language" you roughly mean formal language, the answer is easy. In this case, the distinctions are multitude, the primary one being that natural languages "evolve naturally" - consult a linguist to see what exactly that means.
Aug 18, 2017 · The relation between research programs in both mathematical and philosophical logic and natural language syntax and semantics as branches of theoretical linguistics has increased in importance throughout the last fifty years. This chapter reviews the development of one particularly interesting and lively area of interaction between formal logic ...
- Alice G.B. ter Meulen
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Oct 3, 2013 · First, I argue that natural language has an inherent natural logic, probably the same for all languages, in that linguistic words or morphemes stand proxy for logical operators whose meanings jointly define a logical system. Secondly, since by definition logical operators have scope and since logical structure is determined by scope relations, semantic comprehension of sentences likewise ...
Jul 17, 2018 · To then say that natural language disguises logical form cannot mean, for Wittgenstein, that the result of clarifying the expressions of our language (e.g. by translating them to a logically more perspicuous notation) is the discovery of a genuine piece of theoretical knowledge about logical form.
Oct 14, 2009 · In a recent paper Johan van Benthem reviews earlier work done by himself and colleagues on ‘natural logic’. His paper makes a number of challenging comments on the relationships between traditional logic, modern logic and natural logic. I respond to his challenge, by drawing what I think are the most significant lines dividing traditional logic from modern. The leading difference is in the ...
But regardless, according to the logic in natural language thesis, they are just more languages, and determine logics just like formal languages do. 3 Whereas the logics in formal languages thesis is relatively banal, the logic in natural language thesis is one I shall argue against.
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Jan 1, 2016 · of inferential and cognitive pragmatics, a third possible relation between logic and NL has. been considered: the difference between logic and natural language is not a question of. semantics, but ...
