On the Notion of Logical Form  

作　　者：林允清[1] 

机构地区：[1]北京航空航天大学外国语学院

出　　处：《当代外语研究》2014年第6期34-44,共11页Contemporary Foreign Language Studies

摘　　要：The notion of logical form plays a central role in the philosophy of language and in linguistics.But what logical form is has not been clear.In this paper I first survey the uses of logical form,and show that this notion has no well-defined meaning.I then discuss three main motivations behind invoking logical form,and argue that two of them are unwarranted,and the third can be satisfied by an approach to the logic of ordinary language that is based on the idea of sentence frames,rather than on the traditional idea of subject and predicate.The notion of logical form plays a central role in the philosophy of language and in linguistics.But what logical form is has not been clear.In this paper I first survey the uses of logical form,and show that this notion has no well-defined meaning.I then discuss three main motivations behind invoking logical form,and argue that two of them are unwarranted,and the third can be satisfied by an approach to the logic of ordinary language that is based on the idea of sentence frames,rather than on the traditional idea of subject and predicate.

关 键 词：ordinary language LOGIC INFERENCE logical form 

分 类 号：B152[哲学宗教—世界哲学]