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On meaning, logic and verbal language

Umberto Eco

pp. 431-448

Abstract

I do not know why the members of the organizing committee of this conference have so cordially invited me — and not as an auditor but as a speaker. I am not a logician and I am not a philosopher of science. I suppose I have been brought here as a representative of the curious genus of semioticians, and probably the organizers thought that it would have been wise and witty to provide logicians with an ostensive example of what should not be done —in the sense in which, according to an example by Charles Sanders Peirce, a drunkard can be exhibited by the Salvation Army in order to advertise by contrast the advantages of temperance.

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Doets Kees, Mundici Daniele (1997) Structures and norms in science: volume two of the tenth international congress of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, Florence, august 1995. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 431-448

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0538-7_27

Full citation:

Eco Umberto (1997) „On meaning, logic and verbal language“, In: K. Doets & D. Mundici (eds.), Structures and norms in science, Dordrecht, Springer, 431–448.