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Game-theoretical semantics and logical form

Barry Richards

pp. 123-156

Abstract

Game-theoretical semantics of the Hintikka type might be seen as offering a new paradigm for truth-conditional semantics, that is, for defining the concept of truth-in-a-model. The familiar Tarskian approach is to proceed "inside out' by first defining truth-in-a-model for the atomic sentences of a language and then extending the definition to the language as a whole by adding a number of recursive clauses. In the case of formal languages like those of predicate logic the number of recursive clauses will coincide with the number of logical constants; but for more comprehensive languages there may also be recursive clauses of certain non-logical expressions. In general the truth conditions of a complex sentence will always be defined recursively on the basis of the truth conditions of its atomic subformulas.

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Published in:

(1987) Jaakko Hintikka. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 123-156

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3763-5_5

Full citation:

Richards Barry (1987) „Game-theoretical semantics and logical form“, In: , Jaakko Hintikka, Dordrecht, Springer, 123–156.