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Truth and Language

Posted on March 14, 1989 by Admin

The challenge of this paper is to say enough about the subject of truth in a short space so that the picture of truth that emerges is not a false witness.

You may be aware that in the long history of the problem of truth there have been some principal answers as to what truth is. Continue reading →

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Language and Human Being

Posted on March 18, 1988 by Admin

Chauncey C. Riddle Brigham Young University 18 Mar. 1988 Riddle, Chauncey C. (1988) “Language and Human Being,” Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium: Vol. 14: Iss. 1, Article 17. Available at: http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/dlls/vol14/iss1/17 Introduction The human be-ing considered in this paper … Continue reading →

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The Logic of Meaning

Posted on March 27, 1987 by Admin

Logic has two major applications to language. One is the relating of truth-value, taking units of language as wholes and relating them to each other in the manner of the propositional calculus. This we shall call macro-logic. The second application is the study of the logic of meaning relationships in language, which we denominate as the micro-logic of language. The concern of this paper will be with the micro-logic of meaning. Continue reading →

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