PHIL 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scare Quotes, Bracket, Object Language
3 Feb 2016
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If l & b are sentences of english, then so is l & b" {false} (corner quotes)- allow the things inside to be used and not just mentioned. (p &q) abbreviates the symbol string which results from writing (" followed by p followed by &" followed by q followed by )". English, meta-variables (lower-case- a, b, c ) and all of lsl, corner and scare quotes. (a & b) v c" is a sentence of lsl but (a & b) v c" isn"t. P & q = [(a v b) & (c d)] Scare quotes lock in the symbols between them. Has uppercase letters which stand for basic sentences and 5 sentential connectives/operators (1 unary and 4 binary) ~ (tilde) negation not, that"s not the case that. & (ampersand) conjunction and, also, moreover, but. V (vee) disjunction or, either or . (arrow) conditional if then , only if. (double arrow) biconditional if and only if.
