How much logic is built into natural language?
Abstract
Query Does knowing a natural language (English, Japanese, Swahili,...) imply knowing any logic? The Query is reasonable (First Order) Predicate Logic (PL=) is a “Universal Grammar” for the languages of Elementary Arithmetic, Euclidean Geometry, Set Theory, .... It defines their expressions, their semantic interpretations, and proofs, that syntactically characterize the boolean semantic entailment relation.
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2005-12-01
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How to Cite
Keenan, E. (2005). How much logic is built into natural language?. Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 39-44. https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/article/view/22963
