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Form, philosophy: A. Form traditionally is an antonym of matter or content. Form is the structure or arrangement of something. It is the way that something is organized or composed. Form can be found in art, music, literature, architecture, nature and language. See also statue/clay, exterior/interior, Wholes, Parts, Dualism, Substance, Substrate, Change, Process. B. In logic it comes to the form in which statements must be expressed in order to allow conclusions. See also Fine-grained/coarse-grained, Completeness, Theories, Systems, Formalism.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Max Black on Forms - Dictionary of Arguments

II 121
Form/language/Black: the totality of rules for word usage can be understood as a specification of the grammatical form - then two words have the same shape, if they are covered by the same rules - e.g. "red" and "blue", "three" and "five "but not "red" and "three".
II 223
Meaning/Carrier/Object/Translation/Black: Problem: E.g. "yellow means jaune" has the same shape as "Mary loves Mopser"- problem what is supposed to be subject and object in the case of yellow/Jaune (> logical form
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>Rules, >Content, >Propositional content, >Conceptual content, >Language rules.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Black I
Max Black
"Meaning and Intention: An Examination of Grice’s Views", New Literary History 4, (1972-1973), pp. 257-279
In
Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung, G. Meggle (Hg), Frankfurt/M 1979

Black II
M. Black
The Labyrinth of Language, New York/London 1978
German Edition:
Sprache. Eine Einführung in die Linguistik München 1973

Black III
M. Black
The Prevalence of Humbug Ithaca/London 1983

Black IV
Max Black
"The Semantic Definition of Truth", Analysis 8 (1948) pp. 49-63
In
Truth and Meaning, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994


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