The Semantics of John Stuart Mill
The original, Dutch version of this book served in 1979 as a doctoral disserta tion in philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam. In this preface to the - slightly revised - English translation, I wish once again to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Prof. J. van der Hoeven of the Free Uni...
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| Series: | Synthese Historical Library
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Semantics of John Stuart Mill, Texte imprimé, 9789400978188 • The Semantics of John Stuart Mill, Willem Remmelt de Jong, Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1982, 1 vol.(XVII-248 p.), Synthese historical library, 90-277-1408-8 • The Semantics of John Stuart Mill, Texte imprimé, 9789400978171 |
Table des matières:
- 1 / The Classification of Names in a System of Logic
- 1.1 Names
- 1.2 The distinction between individual and general names
- 1.3 Abstract and concrete names
- 1.4 Connotative versus non-connotative names
- 1.5 The remaining distinctions of names
- 2 / Themes from the History of Logic
- 2.1 Mill's familiarity with the older logic
- 2.2 Some classifications of terms
- 2.3 The Manuductio ad Logicam of Philippus du Trieu
- 2.4 The ontological square
- 2.5 Paronymy
- 2.6 Connotative and absolute terms in scholastic logic
- 2.7 The identity of thing and essence
- 3 / Thinking in Intension and Extension
- 3.1 Abstraction and generalization in English empiricism
- 3.2 The Port-Royal logic
- 3.3 Extension-intension (comprehension), and denotation-connotation
- 3.4 Extension
- 3.5 Intension
- 3.6 Formal characterization of the diverse notions of extension and intension
- 3.7 The inverse relation between intension and extension
- 3.8 A problematical presupposition in the analysis of intensions
- 4 / From Predicables to Real Kinds
- 4.1 The incipience of the theory of denotation and connotation in 'Whately's Elements of Logic'
- 4.2 Predicating and signifying in Whately
- 4.3 The theory of the predicables in 'Whately's Elements of Logic'
- 4.4 The revised version of the predicables in 'The Early Draft of the Logic'
- 4.5 Real kinds
- 4.6 Abstract terms
- 4.7 James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind
- 4.8 Connotation revisited
- 5 / Theories of the Copula
- 5.1 Views of the copula
- 5.2 The semantic scheme for terms
- 5.3 Some illustrations
- 5.4 Limitations of the diverse theories
- 5.5 The copula as identity
- 5.6 Syntactic and semantic analysis of Hobbes's theory of predication
- 6 / The Semantics of Propositions
- 6.1 Ambiguity of the copula
- 6.2 The analysis of S-P propositions as meaning analysis
- 6.3 Dictum de omni and nota notae est nota rei ipsius
- 6.4 The connotation of a term as constitutive for its denotation
- 6.5 The syllogism a petitio principii?
- 6.6 The status of deduction
- 6.7 Abstract propositions
- 6.8 Existential import
- 6.9 Real and verbal propositions
- 6.10 Definitions
- 6.11 Resistance to the logic of identity
- 7 / Meaning
- 7.1 Some interpretations of Mill's theory of meaning
- 7.2 Meaning and the distinction between connotative and non-connotative terms
- 7.3 Meaning and ideas
- 7.4 Proper names
- 7.5 Philosophical language
- 8 / Semantics and Metaphysics
- 8.1 "Common sense" ontology
- 8.2 Relativity of knowledge
- 8.3 Ontology
- 8.4 Resemblance: epistemological aspects of the problem of universals
- 8.5 Logic and metaphysics
- 9 / Appraisal
- 9.1 Connotative terms and the deformation of the ontological square
- 9.2 The legacy of the past: terms
- 9.3 Signs of a new logical paradigm: propositions
- 9.4 Names, propositions, and facts
- 9.5 Meaning, fixing the reference, and rigid designators
- Appendix 1 / Some biographical notes
- Appendix 2 / Du Trieu's doctrine of supposition
- Appendix 3 / Predication and supposition
- List of symbols and abbreviations of technical terms
- Notes
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.