The Connectives

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

The Connectives The Connectives Lloyd Humberstone The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England ©2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email special_sales@mitpress .mit.edu or write to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Computer Modern Roman by the author and was printed and bound in the United States. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Humberstone, Lloyd. The connectives / Lloyd Humberstone. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-01654-4 (alk. paper) 1. Logic. 2. Grammar, Comparative and general—Connectives. 3. Language and Logic. I. Title. BC57.H86 2011 160—dc22 2010053835 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 DEDICATION This book is dedicated to Reed’s School, Cobham, Surrey, in gratitude for the years 1963–1967, during which I first learnt, among many other things, that there was such a subject as formal logic. ...