Seminar: David McCarty

You are cordially invited to join us for the opening presentation of the Logic Seminar Series for 2009-2010.

David McCarty, IU Philosophy Department, will present, "On Pure Syntax."

Wednesday, September 2
4:00 p.m.
Ballantine Hall 018

Abstract:
The talk offers a close and detailed examination of the question, "Is there support in mathematical logic for the claim that there is pure syntax, that is, formal or natural languages whose elements are naturally devoid of denotational meaning?" Results of the examination are brought to bear on familiar assumptions in cognitive science and computability theory.

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