A misconception of logic in its diffusion across non-mathematical environments: The embarrassing mistake of relying on natural language

In this paper we criticize a widespread practice in the teaching, use, and dissemination of first-order logic in non-mathematical environments. This practice consists in the presentation of the truth-conditions of logical formulas by means of sentences in natural language – e.g., if ‘s’ represents S...

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2019
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Universidad del Rosario
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Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
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eng
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oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/22538
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https://doi.org/10.22381/LPI1820194
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22538
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Formal semantics
Formal structure of natural language
Logic teaching
Natural language semantics
Semantics of first-order logic
Translational semantics
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