Anatomy of a proposition
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27240%2F19%3A10246668" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27240/19:10246668 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-017-1512-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-017-1512-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1512-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11229-017-1512-y</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Anatomy of a proposition
Original language description
This paper addresses the mereological problem of the unity of structured propositions. The problem is how to make multiple parts interact such that they form a whole that is ultimately related to truth and falsity. The solution I propose is based on a Platonist variant of procedural semantics. I think of procedures as abstract entities that detail a logical path from input to output. Procedures are modeled on a function/argument logic, but are not functions (mappings). Instead they are higher-order, fine-grained structures. I identify propositions with particular kinds of molecular procedures containing multiple sub-procedures as parts. Procedures are among the basic entities of my ontology, while propositions are derived entities. The core of a structured proposition is the procedure of predication, which is an instance of the procedure of functional application. The main thesis I defend is that procedurally conceived propositions are their own unifiers detailing how their parts interact so as to form a unit. They are not unified by one of their constituents, e.g., a relation or a sub-procedure, on pain of regress. The relevant procedural semantics is Transparent Intensional Logic, a hyperintensional, typed -calculus, whose -terms express four different kinds of procedures. While demonstrating how the theory works, I place my solution in a wider historical and systematic context.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10200 - Computer and information sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-23891S" target="_blank" >GA18-23891S: Hyperintensional Reasoning over Natural Language Texts</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Synthese
ISSN
0039-7857
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
196
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
40
Pages from-to
1285-1324
UT code for WoS article
000463169600004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85028539948