Ebook: Logic, Language, and Probability: A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971

The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos­ ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter­ national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, by the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, the Academy of Social and Political Sciences of the Socialist Republic of Romania, and the Ministry of Education of Romania. With more than eight hundred participating scholars from thirty-four countries, the Congress was one of the major scientific events of the year 1971. The dedicated efforts of the organizers, the rich and carefully planned program, and the warm and friendly atmosphere contributed to making the Congress a successful and fruitful forum of exchange of scientific ideas. The work of the Congress consisted of invited one hour and half-hour addresses, symposia, and contributed papers. The proceedings were organized into twelve sections of Mathematical Logic, Foundations of Mathematical Theories, Automata and Programming Languages, Philos­ ophy of Logic and Mathematics, General Problems of Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Probability and Induction, Methodology and Philosophy of Physical Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Biological Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Psychological Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Historical and Social Sciences, Methodology and Philosophy of Linguistics, and History of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An Intensional Interpretation of Truth-Values....Pages 3-28
Singular Terms and Statements of Identity....Pages 29-40
Adequate Models for the Non-Fregean Sentential Calculus (Sci)....Pages 41-48
Doubts about Some Standard Arguments for Church’s Thesis....Pages 49-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-62
On the Causal Structure of Random Processes....Pages 63-63
The Paradox of Anomaly....Pages 65-77
Some Problems in the Constructive Probability Theory....Pages 78-82
Evidence and Conceptual Change....Pages 83-99
Empirically Trivial Theories and Inductive Systematization....Pages 100-107
Are some Propensities Probabilities?....Pages 108-114
Questions and Their Pragmatic Value....Pages 115-120
Prediction, Complexity, and Randomness....Pages 121-123
Rules for Reasonable Belief Change....Pages 124-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-142
Models for Text Grammars....Pages 143-143
Tolerance Spaces and Linguistics....Pages 145-180
Modal Tic-Tac-Toe....Pages 181-188
On Binary Relations in Linguistic and Other Semiotic and Social Systems....Pages 189-195
Worlds, Games and Pragmemes: A Unified Theory of Speech Acts....Pages 196-200
On Occasional Expressions....Pages 201-207
Front Matter....Pages 208-212
Combinators and Deep Structure....Pages 143-143
Linguistic Theory and ‘Meaning ? Text’ Type Models....Pages 213-222
Properties of the Derivations According to a Context-Free Grammar....Pages 223-225
The Treatment of Reference in Linguistic Description....Pages 226-236
Fregean Categorial Grammar....Pages 237-244
A Model-Theoretic Approach to Some Problems in the Semantics of Empirical Languages....Pages 245-284
Methodological Relevance of Language Models with Expanding Sets of Sentences....Pages 285-290
A New Type of Syntactic Projectivity: SD-Projectivity....Pages 291-295
On the Representation of Generative Grammars as First-Order Theories....Pages 296-301
Back Matter....Pages 302-316
....Pages 317-327