Dear Robin,
Horror? Wow, that's quite a compliment actually. so what is "logical
grammar". Well let me ask you the same question I asked Lawrence. Is there
something different between an apple and an orange? If you say that there
is, then can you find a language rule that states this? If you can't then
why is it that the statement, "An apple is identical to an orange" is
illogical? Is it not because, in language, we must conform to the logical
structure of facts? And if this is so, then we have ourselves an immoblie
foundation and limit to language that dictates the words we have and the
apriori foundation of the relationship between their meanings. Is it
possible to refute this as metaphysical clap-trap?
the logical grammar is that which is apriori to the structure of our
language, in that the logical structure of facts dictates the logical
structure of our language. We can not, however much we may want to, make
the earth flat; it is spherical. If we say that the "earth is flat" we are
being illogical in spite of ourselves. That this is so shows that language
accords with the logical structure of facts and not the other way around.
This is not a matter of convention or truly subject to the changes in
language (political or otherwise). When people discovered the the earth was
not flat but spherical then they felt the necessity to accord their
statements with the logical structure of this fact. This necessity that
they felt is the necessity to accord with the logical grammar that the
world itself presents to us in facts.
Now i call this the logical grammar but i apologize if that is confusing.
daniel
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