Logic - Language - Ontology by Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska, LUW March 29 at 4pm CET

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The next session of the Logica Universalis Webinar (LUW) is  Wednesday March 29, 2023 at 4pm CET

Speaker: Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska –
Talk: Presentation of the book Logic - Language - Ontology

How should we think about the meaning of the words that make up our language? How does reference of these terms work, and what is their referent when these are connected to abstract objects rather than to concrete ones? Can logic help to address these questions? This collection of papers aims to unify the questions of syntax and semantics of language, which span across the fields of logic, philosophy and ontology of language. The leading motif of the presented selection is the differentiation between linguistic tokens (material, concrete objects) on the one hand and linguistic types (ideal, abstract objects) on the other. Through a promenade among articles that span over all of the Author’s career, this book addresses the complex philosophical question of the ontology of language by following the crystalline conceptual tools offered by logic. At the core of Wybraniec-Skardowska’s scholarship is the idea that language is an ontological being, characterized in compliance with the logical conception of language proposed by Ajdukiewicz. The application throughout the book of tools of classical logic and set theory results fosters the emergence of a general formal logical theory of syntax, semantics and of the pragmatics of language, which takes into account the duality token-type in the understanding of linguistic expressions. Via a functional approach to language itself, logic appears as ontologically neutral with respect to existential assumptions relating to the nature of linguistic expressions and their extra-linguistic counterparts. 

Logic - Language - Ontology: Selected Works | SpringerLink 

Associate Organization: Polish Association of Logic and Philosophy of Science, presented by its president Tomasz Jarmużek

Chair: Janusz  Czelakowski
Editorial Board LU

Everybody is welcome to attend, register here:
https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/updates/23910922

Jean-Yves Beziau
Organizer of LUW
Editor-in-Chief of Logica Universalis and Studies in Universal Logic
http://www.jyb-logic.org/