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In this chapter I want to consider the question of whether semantics should be based on logic. I shall accept a view of semantics which is truth-conditional and model-theoretic and I shall then go on to consider a rather narrower view of what constitutes a logically based semantics.
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Cresswell, M.J. (1988). Semantics and Logic. In: Semantical Essays. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7778-6_3
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