?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Logic+and+the+Sachverhalt&rft.creator=Smith%2C+B.&rft.subject=Logic&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=Those+who+conceive+logic+as+a+science+have+generally+favoured+one+of+two+alternative+conceptions+as+to+what+the+subject-matter+of+this+science+ought+to+be.+On+the+one+hand+is+the+nowadays+somewhat+old-fashioned-seeming+view+of+logic+as+the+science+of+judgment%2C+or+of+thinking+or+reasoning+activities+in+general.+On+the+other+hand+is+the+view+of+logic+as+a+science+of+ideal+meanings%2C+'thoughts'%2C+or+'propositions+in+themselves'.+There+is%2C+however%2C+a+third+alternative+conception%2C+which+enjoyed+only+a+brief+flowering+in+the+years+leading+up+to+the+first+World+War%2C+but+whose+lingering+presence+can+be+detected+in+the+background+of+more+recent+ontologising+trends+in+logic%2C+as+for+example+in+the+'situation+semantics'+of+Barwise+and+Perry.+This+third+conception+sees+logic+as+a+science+of+special+objects+called+'Sachverhalte'+or+'states+of+affairs'.+A+view+of+this+sort+is+present+in+simplified+form+in+the+works+of+Meinong%2C+but+it+received+its+definitive+formulation+in+the+writings+of+Adolf+Reinach%2C+a+student+of+Husserl+who+is+otherwise+noteworthy+for+having+anticipated%2C+in+a+monograph+of+1913%2C+large+chunks+of+what+later+became+known+as+the+theory+of+speech+acts.(1)&rft.date=1989-01&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F299%2F1%2Flogic_and_the_Sachverhalt.htm&rft.identifier=++Smith%2C+B.++(1989)+Logic+and+the+Sachverhalt.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F299%2F