Introduction to semantics

Title ......Page 3
Copyright ......Page 4
Preface ......Page 5
Contents ......Page 11
1. Object Language and Metalanguage ......Page 15
2. Signs and Expressions ......Page 16
3. Sign-Events and Sign-Designs ......Page 17
4. The Parts of Semiotic: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Syntax ......Page 20
5. Descriptive and Pure Semantics ......Page 23
6. Survey of Some Symbols and Terms of Symbolic Logic ......Page 27
7. Semantical Systems ......Page 34
8 .Truth-Tables as Semantical Rules ......Page 42
9. Radical Concepts ......Page 45
10. Further Radical Concepts ......Page 53
11. Variables ......Page 56
12. The Relation of Designation ......Page 61
13. Logical and Descriptive Signs ......Page 68
14. L-Concepts ......Page 72
15. L-Concepts in Special Semantics ......Page 90
16. L-Concepts in General Semantics ......Page 95
17. Correspondence between Semantical and Absolute Concepts ......Page 100
18. L-Range ......Page 107
19. The Concept of L-Range in an Extensional Metalanguage ......Page 130
20. General Semantics Based upon the Concept of L-Range ......Page 146
21. F-Concepts ......Page 152
22. Characteristic Sentences ......Page 157
23. L-Content ......Page 160
24. Calculi ......Page 167
25. Proofs and Derivations ......Page 171
26. The Null Sentential Class in Syntax ......Page 173
27. Examples of Calculi ......Page 176
28. C-Concepts (1) ......Page 179
29. Theorems Concerning C-Concepts ......Page 185
30. C-Concepts (2) ......Page 190
31. C-Concepts (3) ......Page 198
32. C-Content and C-Range ......Page 209
33. True and False Interpretations ......Page 214
34. L-True and L-False Interpretations ......Page 219
35. Examples of Interpretations ......Page 224
36. Exhaustive and L-Exhaustive Calculi ......Page 228
37. Terminological Remarks ......Page 241
38. Outline of Further Semantical Problems ......Page 254
39. Remarks on "Logical Syntax of Language" ......Page 258
BIBLIOGRAPHY ......Page 265
INDEX ......Page 269