A Reinterpretation of Jepersen's Notion of Negation

• 영문명: A Reinterpretation of Jepersen's Notion of Negation
• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Kiyoung Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제18호, 203~212쪽, 전체 10쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.12.01

영문 초록

Jespersen proposed a tripartite analysis of negation. While the two predicates "is rich" and "is not rich" are contradictory, he argues, for instance, that the two sentences "John is rich" and "John is not rich" are not contradictory. but only contrary because the term "John" may refer to someone who is neither rich nor non-rich This argument cannot, however, be validated on the bassis of the normal bivalent logic, thus requiring some particular interpretation of his notion of negation This paper alms at reinterpreting Jespersen's so-caned tripartite analysis of negation without violating the traditional principles of logics By introducing possible worlds semantics, attempts will be made on reinterpreting some of Jespersen's analyses of negation and accommodating his tripartite view of negation within the formal elementary logics Some modal notions of necessity or certainty may be called for to support the present analysis

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Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Survey of Jespersen's Works on Negation

3. Terminology

4. Two Senses of Negation

5. Tripartite Distinctions

6. Mathematical vs. Linguistic Negation

7. Concluding Remarks

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