Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Formal reasoning with non-denoting terms, esp.non-referring descriptions such as "the King of France", is still an under-investigated area.The recent exception being a series of papers e.g. by Indrzejczak and Zawidzki.The present paper offers an alternative to their approach since instead of free logic and sequent calculus, it's framed in partial type theory with natural deduction in sequent style.Using a Montague-and Tichý-style formalization of natural language, the paper successfully handles deduction with intensional transitives whose complements are non-referring descriptions, and derives Strawsonian rules for existential presuppositions of sentences with such descriptions.
DOI: 10.4204/eptcs.415.8
Author: Jiří Raclavský
Institution: Masaryk University
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405854032