PHIL 3225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Predicative Expression, Formal Language, Propositional Calculus
13 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Formal versus natural language w we can introduce formal languages by contrast with natural languages. w a natural language is a language that occurs "naturally" among humans. The formal language we are going to be working with in. Szab section 3, pages 126-129 (end of first paragraph) w the main reason for the simplicity is that szab is only interested in the formalization of a tiny fragment of english. Why bother with formalizing (a fragment of) a natural language? w why would anyone be interested in formalizing (a part of) natural language? w you can perhaps appreciate the motivation here by considering in particular. Stevenson"s and geach"s distinct attempts to make sense of the meaning of "good. " w in particular, what their distinct attempts have suggested is that sentences of the form. " x" (where " ," like "j" and "c" denotes a pleasant emotion). w likewise, in principle, it doesn"t matter whether we formalize stevenson"s conception as:
