The Genealogy of Disjunction

By: R. E. Jennings

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Hardcover | 7 June 2001

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This is a comprehensive study of the English word or, and the logical operators variously proposed to present its meaning. Although there are indisputably disjunctive uses of or in English, it is a mistake to suppose that logical disjunction represents its core meaning. Or is descended from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning second, a form which survives in such expressions as "every other day." Its disjunctive uses arise through metalinguistic applications of an intermediate adverbial meaning which is conjunctive rather than disjunctive in character. These conjunctive uses have puzzled philosophers and logicians, and have been discussed extensively under such headings as "free choice permission." This study examines the textbook myths that have clouded our understanding of how or and other "logical" vocabulary comes to have something approaching its logical meaning in natural languages. It considers the various historical conceptions of disjunction and its place in logic from the
Stoics to the present day.

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The Story of 'Or'
Introduction	p. 3
Preliminaries	p. 3
Introduction to 'Or'	p. 20
What Does Disjunction do?	p. 27
The Puzzle according to Russell	p. 27
Grice's Go	p. 29
Antecedents of Russell's Formulation	p. 32
Logic, Language, and History	p. 40
The First Myth of 'Or'	p. 43
Modern Sources	p. 43
The Sign of the Beast	p. 53
An Historical Interlude: Boole's Rule	p. 70
The Puzzle about 'Or'	p. 84
Conjunctive 'Or'	p. 84
Attempted Solutions	p. 89
The Larger Picture	p. 107
Logic and Punctuation	p. 114
Natural Logics	p. 114
Natural Deontic Logic	p. 116
Unnaturalness Elsewhere	p. 128
The Punctuationist Account	p. 138
Arrogative 'Or'	p. 148
Orphan 'Any'
General Noun Phrases	p. 161
'Or' and Quantification	p. 161
Some Modern Sources	p. 173
Experiments	p. 183
Is 'Any' a Quantifier?	p. 189
Form and Meaning	p. 195
Scope and Form	p. 195
Form and Meaning	p. 205
Heteronomy and Discontinuous Syntax	p. 212
'Or' in Opaque Contexts	p. 218
Undistributive Or-lists	p. 218
The Propositional Gloss on Opacity	p. 229
Funny Velentine
The Second Myth of 'Or'	p. 239
Modern Sources	p. 239
Aut, Damned Myth!	p. 240
Heredipety	p. 246
Stoic Disjunction	p. 252
What Stoic Disjunction Was Not	p. 252
What the Languages Can Tell Us	p. 260
What Stoic Disjunction May Have Been	p. 273
The Adverbial 'Or'	p. 276
A Pragmatic Approach	p. 276
'Or' as Adverb	p. 288
Conclusions	p. 304
The Evidence of Empirical Research	p. 317
Bibliography	p. 324
Index of Names	p. 338
Index of Subjects	p. 342
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