Semantics of Natural Language
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY MONOGRAPHS ON EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND OF KNOWLEDGE, AND ON THE MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF SOCIAL AND BEHA VIORAL SCIENCES
Editors: DONALD DAVIDSON,
The Rockefeller UniversityandPrinceton University
JAAKKO HINTIKKA,
Academy of Finland and Stanford University
GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, WESLEY
C.
SALMON,
University of Leyden
Indiana Uni'versity
SEMANTICS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE Edited by
DONALD DAVIDSON The Rockefeller University and Princeton University
and
GILBERT HARMAN Princeton University
SECOND EDITION
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Ubrary of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-76427 ISBN-13: 978-90-277-0310-1 OOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-2557-7
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-2557-7
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PREFACE
The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction reprinted below from Volume 21 of Synthese. The present volume contains the artieles in Synthese 21, Numbers 3-4 and Synthese 22, Numbers 1-2. In addition, it ineludes new papers by Saul Kripke, James McCawley, John R. Ross, and Paul Ziff, and reprints 'Grammar and Philosophy' by P. F. Strawson. Strawson's artiele first appeared in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 70, and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Aristotelian Society. We also repeat our thanks to the Olivetti Companyand Edizione di Comunita of Milan for permission to inelude the paper by Dana Scott; it also appeared in Synthese 21. DONALO DAVIDSON GILBERT HARMAN
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
The success of linguistics in treating naturallanguages as formal syntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a paralleI or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independently, many philosophers and logicians have reeently been applying formai semantic methods to structures increasingly like naturallanguages. While differenees in training, method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and linguists are converging, it seerns, on a common set of interrelated probiems. Sinee philosophers and linguists are working on the same, or very similar, probiems, it would obviously be instructive to compare notes. Inspired by this thought, we organized a small working conferenee on the semantics of naturallanguage in August of 1969. The conferenee was sponsored by the Couneil for Philosophical Studies, and supported by the Couneil and the National Science Foundation. The Center for Advaneed Study
