26 Feb 2009

Vergauwen, A Metalogical Theory of Reference, Introduction, §13

[The following is summary. Paragraph headings are my own.]




Roger Vergauwen

A Metalogical Theory of Reference: Realism and Essentialism in Semantics

Introduction: the Temperature of a Hot Topic


§13 Vergauwen's Intensional Logic



Chapter four of Vergauwen's book discusses how intensional logic (IL) does not sufficiently account for reference theory's metalogical aspect. Yet, intensional logic regards non-standard models as a part of its metatheory. Nonetheless, non-standard models function within intensional logic. In fact, nonstandard models deal with meaning's structure. These things have not yet been recognized. So Vergauwen will explain IL+ in the fourth chapter. Together with omega essentialism, IL+ founds our metalogical reference theory.



Vergauwen, Roger. A Metalogical Theory of Reference: Realism and Essentialism in Semantics. London: University Press of America, 1993.

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