Provides a clear presentation of the various uses of the term logical form, from the traditional to the more recent Examines the relation between logic and natural language, a classical issue that is crucial to the whole analytic tradition in philosophy Articulates a line of thought that has an enormous impact on some widely debated issues in philosophical logic

Autorentext
Andrea Iacona is Professor of Logic at the University of Turin. His main research interests are in logic and philosophy of language. He is the author of Propositions (Name 2002), L'argomentazione (Einaudi 2005, second edition 2010), and Teoria della logica del prim'ordine (with Stefano Cavagnetto), 2010.

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Inhalt
Preface.- 1. The early history of logical form.- 2. The ideal of logical perfection.- 3. Formal languages and natural languages.- 4. Logical form and syntactic structure.- 5. Logical form and truth conditions.- 6. Logical knowledge vs knowledge of logical form.- 7. Validity.- 8. Quanti ed sentences.- 9. Further issues concerning quanti cation.- Afterword.