Law Publications
Title
Logical Form and the Vernacular Revisited
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Volume
32
Issue
4
Journal
Mind and Language
First Page
495
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12151
Last Page
522
Abstract
We revisit a debate initiated some 15 years ago by Ray Elugardo and Robert Stainton about the domain of arguments. Our main result is that arguments are not exclusively sets of linguistic expressions. Instead, as we put it, some non-linguistic items have ‘logical form’. The crucial examples are arguments, both deductive and inductive, made with unembedded words and phrases.
Citation of this paper:
Botterell, A. and R. Stainton. “Logical Form and the Vernacular Revisited" (with R. Stainton) Mind and Language 32:4 (2017): 495-522
