Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar

by Strawson,P.F.

• ISBN13: 9780754637882
• ISBN10: 0754637883
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2016-03-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

P.F. Strawson has supplied a new introduction for this reissue of his modern classic originally published in 1974. Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar explores two conceptions of subject and predicate, one of which lies at the core of standard logic and the other more closely relates to surface forms of natural language. Strawson renders these two conceptions, and their divergences, intelligible by relating them both to the 'basic case' in which the subject-term designates a substantial spatio-temporal individual.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
PART I: THE SUBJECT IN LOGIC
The `Basic Combination'	3	(32)
Some formal differences	4	(7)
Spatio-temporal particulars and general concepts	11	(6)
Propositional combination: a tripartition of function	17	(1)
Formal differences explained for the basic case	18	(10)
The generalization of the form	28	(2)
An objection answered	30	(5)
Proper Names -- and Others	35	(28)
What is the use of them?	35	(8)
Names and identity	43	(4)
Names in the framework of logic: proper names, variable names and descriptive names	47	(8)
General names	55	(8)
PART II: THE SUBJECT IN GENERAL
Language-Types and Perspicuous Grammars	63	(20)
Essential grammar and variable grammar	63	(4)
Language-Types 1 and 2	67	(3)
Language-Type 3: relations	70	(7)
Further minor enrichments: space-time indication	77	(6)
Substantiation and its Modes	83	(16)
Special case and general function	83	(4)
Some supporting evidence	87	(4)
Modes of substantiation	91	(3)
Further matters: existence; negation; scope	94	(5)
The Generalization of the Subject	99	(13)
Derivative roles and derivative elements	99	(3)
The generalization of the subject	102	(8)
The fitting in of features	110	(2)
Further questions	112	(3)
Index	115