Negation and infinity

Kazimierz Trzęsicki

doi:10.2478/slgr-2018-0021

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Negation and infinity

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

Volume 54 (2018): Issue 1 (June 2018)

By: Kazimierz Trzęsicki

Open Access

|Nov 2018

Abstract

Infinity and negation are in various relations and interdependencies one to another. The analysis of negation and infinity aims to better understanding them. Semantical, syntactical, and pragmatic issues will be considered.

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