Re: The problematic connective

John Jones <jonescardiff@xxxxxxx> writes:

Mitch wrote:
Which is all to say, there's not much of a problem with 'and', or the
other connectives (at least not in this conversation), the problem is
with those examples of propositions.

Mitch

Yes, but isn't it the case that the examples used to illustrate the
problem extend right across the board, with no exceptions?


There are plenty of well-known examples in which the natural language
"and" does not behave like the logical "and". This basic fact is very
old news, but you haven't come up with any coherent reasoning along
these lines.

For just one example: In logic, A & B is true in exactly the same
situations in which B & A is true, but in natural language this is not
so.

"Jennie became pregnant and she got married."

has a different meaning from

"Jennie got married and she became pregnant."

This exciting observation that natural language meaning is different
than the meanings of formal connectives has been done. (To be sure,
none of these arguments bear any similarity to your odd claims.)

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