Logical Form and Truth-Conditions

This paper outlines a truth-conditional view of logical form, that is, a view according to which logical form is essentially a matter of truth-conditions. §1 provides some preliminary clarifications. §2 shows that the main motivation for the view is the fact that fundamental logical relations such as entailment or contradiction can formally be explained only if truth-conditions are formally represented. §3 and §4 articulate the view and dwell on its affinity with a conception of logical form that has been defended in the past. §§5-7 draw attention to its impact on three major issues that concern, respectively, the extension of the domain of formal explanation, the semantics of tensed discourse, and the analysis of quantification.