Prepositions and Spatial Relations in Natural Languages According to Leibniz

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6194
dc.title	Prepositions and Spatial Relations in Natural Languages According to Leibniz
dc.contributor.author	Mugnai Massimo
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2021/2/prepositions-and-spatial-relations-in-natural-lang/
dc.description.abstract	In his 1677 Dialogue, Leibniz answers the question of how it is possible that speakers of different languages agree on the same truths by postulating “a certain correspondence between characters and things”. In the mid-1680s, he arguably attempts to specify this “correspondence” by explaining how linguistic particles are connected to our perception of spatial relations among things in the world. Firstly, this paper focuses on the role that, according to Leibniz, signs and characters play in our knowledge. Secondly, it introduces the solution that can be found in the Dialogue to the problem of how the same truth can be expressed in different languages. After briefly expounding Leibniz’s theory of natural languages, the paper gives an account of Leibniz’s analysis of the nature of prepositions and of how they contribute, in a natural language, to determine the correspondence between characters and things that is mentioned in the Dialogue.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Num. 2 \| Dicembre 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-15
dc.dateAccepted	2021-10-08
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-12
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2021/02/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Knowledge
dc.subject	Knowledge
dc.subject	Leibniz
dc.subject	Leibniz
dc.subject	Natural Languages
dc.subject	Natural Languages
dc.subject	Prepositions
dc.subject	Prepositions
dc.subject	Spatial Relations
dc.subject	Spatial Relations
dc.subject	Tropes
dc.subject	Tropes

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Massimo Mugnai Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italia

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In his 1677 Dialogue, Leibniz answers the question of how it is possible that speakers of different languages agree on the same truths by postulating “a certain correspondence between characters and things”. In the mid-1680s, he arguably attempts to specify this “correspondence” by explaining how linguistic particles are connected to our perception of spatial relations among things in the world. Firstly, this paper focuses on the role that, according to Leibniz, signs and characters play in our knowledge. Secondly, it introduces the solution that can be found in the Dialogue to the problem of how the same truth can be expressed in different languages. After briefly expounding Leibniz’s theory of natural languages, the paper gives an account of Leibniz’s analysis of the nature of prepositions and of how they contribute, in a natural language, to determine the correspondence between characters and things that is mentioned in the Dialogue.

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15 Dicembre 2021

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08 Ottobre 2021

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12 Luglio 2021

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Keywords: Spatial Relations • Knowledge • Natural Languages • Tropes • Prepositions • Leibniz

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