Papers by Simon Vonlanthen
This thesis investigates the relationship between natural language and formal logic. It is usuall... more This thesis investigates the relationship between natural language and formal logic. It is usually thought that natural language and formal logic come apart at some point, which might stand in tension with the reliance on natural language examples in logic research. Concerning the former point, Glanzberg (2015) recently argued that natural language neither generates a logical consequence relation, nor does it come pre-equipped with a distinction between logical and non-logical vocabulary. I start by expounding Glanzberg’s arguments in detail, before defending them against the received criticism so far. On these grounds, I suggest that the issue lies with the referentialist assumptions of Glanzberg, and thus the idea of use-theoretic approaches to linguistic meaning is introduced. Specifically, I survey the idea of inferentialism, both concerning semantics as well as metasemantics. On the basis of these meaningtheoretic assumptions, I further motivate and excavate corresponding proof...
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Papers by Simon Vonlanthen