Questions tagged [natural-language]
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What does the emergence of different interpretations of Wittgenstein signify?
So I was listening to this Podcast about Wittgenstein the speakers are the Professor of Philosophy of University of South Hampton - Ray Monk, Senior Lecturer of University of York - Mary Macgin and ...
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Do spoken languages have a sense of operators with 'order of operations'
This is something I came across while thinking about expressing a 'nested' choice, i.e. you make a choice where one of the options entails making another choice, for example, at college you could ...
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What is the logical function of “and/or”? [closed]
I feel like it must mean the following:
IF A, B, C and/or D
(A, B, C, and D) and (A, B, C, or D)
And I feel like it must not mean each of them individually and all of their combinations ((A), (B), (C),...
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Why don't we say the "unreasonable effectiveness of language"?
What's so special or unique about mathematics that we keep coming back to this phrasing?
It isn't universal concision - there are many concepts more concisely put in English than math. Like to show ...
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Formal versions of exotic logical connectives in natural language
Formal logic tends to be concerned with minimal or at least almost-minimal sets of logical connectives. The standard logical connectives are and, or, implies, iff, neg (I couldn't use Latex for their ...
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Is it rational to use disjunctive imperative sentences?
Suppose you tell someone, "Go to the store or go to the creek." Now, if this person is otherwise predisposed to one option, and your command triggers this predisposition, then by issuing the ...
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Is "always" omitted in mathematics?
Consider the statement: "For two numbers a,b their product is positive". For this statement to be true it must be true for every a,b right? So is the above statement equivalent to: "For two numbers a,...
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Logical fallacy: Person argues with wrong probability of event, without considering similar events
I know that this is a common error in argumentation that people make, but I don't know if there is a term for it. It's when people argue from an event being remarkable because of its low probability, ...
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Does there exist a "valid" application of Gödel's incompleteness to "logical natural language statements"?
Does there exist a "valid" application of Gödel's incompleteness to "logical natural language statements"?
It can be found to sometimes be naively applied that way, even when the incompleteness ...
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Wittgenstein and theology
Wittgenstein noted that we engage in language games and quite often we borrow words from different games and misuse them such as using words with scientific connotations in religious discourse or ...
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Language and Philosophy
It is clear that many words are defined by how they are used. That context defines the word. The setting of the environment together constitutes the context, and a word is a meaningless string which ...
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Relation of Mathematical Propositions to Natural Language
Treating Natural Language as a language game, what role does it play in our understanding of mathematics? Does natural language provide meaning to mathematics?
Does a proof of a conjecture, say FLT,...
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Natural language into propositional logic
Need some help putting these two examples of natural language into sentence logic. For reference, use the transcription guide below:
D = you think so; E = I think so; F = it is true
If you think so, ...
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Where Wittgenstein argues that thinking is done in natural language?
I am looking for a precise reference where Wittgenstein writes about the use of ordinary language when people think, and that they do not use formal logic. Even in the case of mathematics.
Can you ...
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Questions about the relationship between Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and Tractatus
I've read the Tractatus and am now working my way through Investigations, and I have a few questions about their relationship to one another. Obviously I've heard that the latter is critical of the ...
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Is an argument in natural language as logically valid as in formal logic?
Is a natural language philosophical argument which is argued strictly from first principles widely considered equally as valid as a proof written in formal logic?
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