1. Is meaning compositional? If so, so what?
2. EITHER: a) ‘Tarski has not told us all there is to know about the
concept of truth, since he has not told us what the concept is that his
truth definitions for particular languages have in common.’ Discuss.
OR: b) ‘ “Snow is white” is true because snow is white.’ Discuss.
3. ‘The substitutional reading of the quantifiers cannot be applied to
uncountable domains, hence it is hopelessly flawed.’ Discuss.
4. Does the verb ‘kicked’ take a fixed number of arguments?
5. What did Frege mean by the ‘sense’ of a singular term? Explain and
assess his reasons for positing such a notion.
6. How, if at all, is causation involved in reference?
7. Expound a semantics for the modal logic S4. Show that S4 is properly
contained in S5.
8. ‘Fitch’s paradox of knowability is not a paradox, but simply a theorem
which shows that we should reject the claim that every truth is
knowable.’ Is this right? Does it raise any problems for intuitionists?
9. ‘The meaning of the logical constants is exhausted by their introduction
and elimination rules.’ Discuss.
10.Should we think of the logical consequence relation as holding
primarily between sentences or between propositions (or neither)?