Logic, Language-Games and Information

Introduction

This collection of essays appeared in 1973 at Clarendon Press in Oxford. Its centrepiece is game-theoretical semantics: the meaning of quantifiers such as “every” and “some” is explained by games of seeking and finding between a verifier, who tries to show a sentence true, and a falsifier, who tries to show it false; the sentence is true if the verifier has a winning strategy. Hintikka presents this as a precise version of Wittgenstein’s idea of language-games. Other essays deal with information, probability and the logic of perception. The book opened a line of research that Hintikka later continued in his independence-friendly logic.

Connections

Builds on

• Philosophical Investigations1953 · Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions1962 · Jaakko Hintikka

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