Harmony and Paradox: Intensional Aspects of Proof-Theoretic Semantics
Harmony and Paradox: Intensional Aspects of Proof-Theoretic Semantics
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031469208 | 199 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031469208 | 199 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This open access book investigates the role played by identity of proofs in proof-theoretic semantics. It develops a conception of proof-theoretic semantics as primarily concerned with the relationship between proofs (understood as abstract entities) and derivations (the linguistic representations of proofs). It demonstrates that identity of proof is a key both to clarify some ―still not wholly understood― notions at the core of proof-theoretic semantics, such as harmony; and to broaden the range of the phenomena which can be analyzed using the tools of this semantic paradigm, so as to include for instance paradoxes.