[FOM] FOM: BUFFALO LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2005-6 THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR: SUMMER ANNOUNCEMENT

[John Corcoran]

BUFFALO LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2005-6 THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR
SECOND SUMMER ANNOUNCEMENT
QUOTE OF THE MONTH:  THE SEMIOTIC TRIANGLE: Prominent in the works of
Aristotle, Mill, Frege, Peirce, Church, Tarski and others are forms of
what has been called, following Peirce, the semiotic triangle: the
interrelations
among three things – (1) an expression or term, (2) a connotation or
sense, and (3) a denotation or referent.  Terminology varies: the term
expresses, means or connotes a sense. But it names, refers to or denotes
a referent.  All parties agree that both the term-sense side and the
term-referent side are purely conventional and extrinsic.  Some hold
that the third side, the sense-referent side, is objective and
intrinsic.  Some hold that third side is prior to the other two legs.  A
distinct but influential
few prefer not to distinguish the vertices in any systematic way.
Tarski writes concerning his own usage of the terms ‘notion’ and
‘concept’: “Thus, sometimes they refer simply to a term, sometimes to
what is meant by a term, and sometimes to what is denoted by a
term.”(Tarski 1944, 370, footnote 4) – Frango Nabrasa 2005

FIRST MEETING
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
12:00-1:30 P.M.
141 Park Hall
SPEAKER: Leonard Jacuzzo, Philosophy, Fredonia State College and
Canisius
College.
TITLE: Principles of Form for Argumentations and the Limits of Formal
Logic.
SECOND MEETING
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
12:00-1:30 P.M.
141 Park Hall

SPEAKER: John Corcoran, Philosophy, University of Buffalo.
TITLE: Wholistic Reference, Truth-Values, Universe of Discourse, and
Formal Ontology: Tréplica to Oswaldo Chateaubriand.

ABSTRACT: In its strongest unqualified form, the principle of wholistic
reference is that in a given discourse each proposition refers to the
whole universe of discourse regardless of how limited the referents of
its non-logical or content terms. According to this principle every
proposition of number theory, even an equation such as “5 + 7 = 12”,
refers not only to the individual numbers that it happens to mention but
to the whole universe of numbers. This principle, its history, and its
relevance to some of Oswaldo Chateaubriand’s work are discussed in my
2004 paper “The Principle of Wholistic Reference” in Essays on
Chateaubriand’s “Logical Forms”. In Chateaubriand’s reply, which is
printed with my paper, he raised several important additional issues
including the three I focus on in this reply to his reply: truth-values,
universe of discourse, and formal ontology. This paper is
self-contained: it is not necessary to have read the above-mentioned
works.

Key-words: Boole, Chateaubriand, Church, Frege, Tarski, Wholistic,
Refers, Denotes, Sentence, Proposition, Truth-value, Universe of
discourse, Ontology, Epistemology.


THIRD MEETING
Wednesday, July 6, 2005
12:00-1:30 P.M.
141 Park Hall

TENTATIVE SPEAKER: John Corcoran, Philosophy, University of Buffalo.
TITLE: C. I. Lewis: History and Philosophy of Logic.


FOURTH MEETING
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
12:00-1:30 P.M.
141 Park Hall

TENTATIVE SPEAKER: John Corcoran, Philosophy, University of Buffalo.
TITLE: George Boole and the Boolean Period in History of Logic.

FIFTH MEETING
Wednesday, July 20 2005
12:00-1:30 P.M.
141 Park Hall
TENTATIVE SPEAKER: John Kearns, Philosophy, University at Buffalo
TITLE: Russell’s 1905 “On Denoting”.
SIXTH MEETING
Wednesday, July 27 2005
12:00-1:30 P.M.
141 Park Hall

TENTATIVE SPEAKER: John Corcoran, Philosophy, University of Buffalo.
TITLE: The Concept of Schema in History of Logic.


THESE BROWN-BAG MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE ON WEDNESDAYS AT NOON THROUGH
JULY. COME WHEN YOU ARE FREE. BRING LUNCH. LEAVE WHEN YOU HAVE TO. ALL
ARE WELCOME

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