Abstract
The little word ‘and’ is one of the fascinating words of English, like ‘of’.1 But of the two ‘and’ is by far the more fundamental, being needed almost continually in the statement of logical forms or semantic structures, as already noted. ‘Of’, on the other hand, is always eliminable from such structures, and in fact is presumably eliminable altogether from the basic vocabulary of English, its various uses being definable in terms of other notions available. Uses of ‘and’, on the other hand, are definable using the truth-functional ‘·’, together of course with other notions. The fundamentally of the truth-functions, along with the quantifiers and identity, surely needs no gainsaying at the present stage of linguistic research.
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Notes
Recall Chapter X.
It would be interesting to determine the historically first suggestions for the need of this kind of a treatment.
Cf. ‘Of Servants, Lovers, and Benefactors,’ in Peirce’s Logic of Relations and Other Studies.
Recall his ‘The Two Systems of Grammar: Report and Paraphrase.’
In his Introduction to Logical Theory (Methuen, London: 1952).
As in Chapters VIII, IX and X above.
Many of the examples here are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Cf. ‘On Harris’s Systems of Report and Paraphrase.’
From her ‘If’s, And’s, and But’s about Conjunction,’ University of Michigan mimeo, 1970.
Cf. the discussion in ‘On the Very Idea of a Logical Form.’
Quoted from the restaurateur Louis Szathmary, The New York Times, May 24, 1975, p. 42.
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Martin, R.M. (1979). ‘And’. In: Pragmatics, Truth, and Language. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9457-7_17
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