Logical analysis of empirical expressions. What is wrong with
empiricism

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Logical analysis of empirical expressions. What is wrong with empiricism

MATERNA, Pavel

Basic information

Original name

Logical analysis of empirical expressions. What is wrong with empiricism

Authors

MATERNA, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, Bialystok, University of Bialystok, 2018, 0860-150X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/18:00101554

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0017

Keywords in English

abstract; concrete; empirical; sense; denotation; reference

Abstract

V originále

The following well-known problem motivated my handling more general problems. As we surely know, our pupils and even students are confronted with much more trouble when learning mathematics (and even physics) than when they learn ‘empirical’ sciences like biology, mineralogy etc. There are many factors that can at least partially explain this phenomenon. I would however mention one factor that is not too frequently adduced: mathematics, logic, and much of physics use concepts that are abstract while the empirical sciences seem to support understanding by using expressions concerning (denoting? expressing?) concrete objects. Therefore the first topic to be explained (or explicated) is: Abstract vs. concrete. The second point will consist of applying the first point to explanation of the trouble with learning mathematics. The third point will ask Logical Analysis of Natural Language how to tell abstract expressions from concrete ones. The fourth point will confront the concept described in the foregoing point with conceptions trying to abandon the distinction between analytic and empirical expressions. Here it will be shown that the empiricism representing this latter conception deprives semantics as applied to Natural language of important features of expressivity.

Links

GA18-23891S, research and development project

Name: Hyperintensionální usuzování nad texty přirozeného jazyka

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

MATERNA, Pavel. Logical analysis of empirical expressions. What is wrong with empiricism. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric. Bialystok: University of Bialystok, 2018, vol. 54, No 1, p. 77-88. ISSN 0860-150X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0017.

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MATERNA, Pavel. Logical analysis of empirical expressions. What is wrong with empiricism. \textit{Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric}. Bialystok: University of Bialystok, 2018, vol.~54, No~1, p.~77-88. ISSN~0860-150X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0017.

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