On the logical expressive power of natural languages. (English) Zbl 1543.03066
Béziau, Jean-Yves (ed.) et al., Logic in question. Talks from the annual Sorbonne logic workshop (2011–2019), Paris, France, April 15–16, 2019. Cham: Birkhäuser. Stud. Univers. Log., 657-673 (2022).
Summary: Various constructions found in natural languages whose semantics cannot be represented by first-order logic are recalled. In addition, constraints on denotations of quantifiers and quantifier-like expressions are discussed. Finally, some arguments are given from which it follows that many natural language (verbal) predicates do not denote sets but sets of quantifiers.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1515.03009].
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1515.03009].
MSC:
| 03B65 | Logic of natural languages |
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