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  title info:
    title: Game-theoretical semantics
    sub title: essays on semantics
  name:
    name part: Hintikka, Jaakko
    name part: 1929-2015
  name:
    name part: Saarinen, Esa
    name part: 1953-
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1979
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 392 pages)
  abstract: This book is a collection of studies applying game-theoretical concepts and ideas to analysing the semantics of natural language and some formal languages. The bulk of the book consists of several papers by Hintikka, Carlson and Saarinen and discusses several of the central problems of the semantics of natural language. The topics covered are the semantics of natural language quantifiers, conditionals, pronouns and anaphora more generally. Hintikkas famous essay presenting examples of "branching quantifier structures" in English, as well as one formulating his "any-every thesis", are included. The book also includes Hintikkas closely argued philosophical discussion of the relationships between the new semantical games with the language games of Wittgenstein. Other papers apply the game-theoretical approach to formal languages including tense logics and tense anaphora (Saarinen), deontic logic and Ross paradox (Hintikka), and usual predicate logic (Rantala). The latter amounts to an explication of the "impossible possible" worlds as is shown in Hintikkas concluding paper.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Acknowledgements. J. Hintikka: Language-Games -- J. Hintikka: Quantifiers in Logic and Quantifiers in Natural Languages -- J. Hintikka: Quantifiers vs. Quantification Theory -- J. Hintikka: Quantifiers in Natural Language: Some Logical Problems -- C. Peacocke: Game-Theoretic Semantics, Quantifiers and Truth: Comments on Professor Hintikkas Paper -- J. Hintikka: Rejoinder to Peacocke -- J. Hintikka and E. Saarinen: Semantical Games and the Bach-Peters Paradox -- J. Hintikka and L. Carlson: Conditionals, Pronominalization by Quantifiers, and Other Applications of Subgames -- E. Saarinen: Backwards-Looking Operators in Tense Logic and in Natural Language -- E. Saarinen: Intentional Identity Interpreted: A Case Study of the Relations among Quantifiers, Pronouns, and Propositional Attitudes -- J. Hintikka: The Ross Paradox as Evidence for the Reality of Semantical Games -- V. Rantala: Urn Models: A New Kind of Non-Standard Model for First-Order Logic -- J. Hintikka: Impossible Possible Worlds Vindicated -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
  note: by Hintikka [and others] ; edited by Esa Saarinen.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Game-theoretical semantics
  subject:
    topic: Game-theoretical semantics
  subject:
    topic: Sciences humaines
  subject:
    topic: Sciences sociales
  classification: P325.5.M36 G36 1979
  classification: 401/.43
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Game-theoretical semantics : essays on semantics
    identifier: (OCoLC)4211292
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Synthese language library ; v. 5
  identifier: 140204108X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781402041082 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1402032625
  identifier: 9027709181
  identifier: 9781402032622
  identifier: 9789027709189
  identifier: 978-1-4020-3262-2 Springer
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    record content source: YNG
    record creation date: 080618
    record change date: 20260414142200.6
    record identifier: in00002657887
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng