Japanese is logical.

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Born in Tokyo in 1955. Graduated from the Department of Mathematical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Completed the master's course at the same university. Currently a professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University. Doctor of Engineering.

Logic is a form of metaphor.

Duality of [understanding

Symbol manipulability is based on imaginability

Imagination

Abstract expressions lead to images through metaphors.

"The heart is not full" = likening the heart to a container.

He's testing" = time is the container.

Example text: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

What corresponds to the senses in a phenomenon, I name the material of the phenomenon.

This "organizing" is not human in subject (it is a form) → pseudo-human metaphor.

Logic is a form of metaphor.

What is the "form" or "common property" of the container metaphor -> a closed line divides the space into two parts.

True or false in formal logic is inside or outside a set, so it corresponds to the logic of containers

The form of the simile metaphor is a triad of "subject, object, and action"

Japanese Logic and English Logic

The logic of English is the logic of the subject

Both generative and cognitive grammar are subject logic

In English, inanimate subjects are common.

Is "subject-predicate" universal?

Not many subject-mandatory languages

English, German, French, Dutch...

Countries that strongly influenced the process of Japan's opening to the world

The "subject-commentary" relationship

The predicate is the central element of the sentence

The "carried" is central, and both "who" and "what" are complements and tautologies.

Omitted if not required.

The basis of Japanese logic is container logic

Japanese has many expressions that make people "places".

English often compares inanimate objects to people; Japanese often compares people to places.

Taro-san has a lot of experience" = "Taro-san has a lot of experience in his container.

Spring is at its most beautiful at dawn.

Spring is not the dawn of a new year.

Akebono is the best in the container called spring, he says.

one grammar, two logic

I am not claiming that "English is only the logic of the subject, Japanese is only the logic of space."

The logic often used is the logic of the subject in English and the logic of space in Japanese.

The elephant carried the load" is the subject's logic, and the Japanese can understand this.

It's hard to explain "elephants have long noses" using subject logic.

The logic of space is that "long nose" is valid in the container of "elephant".

Evening has come."

The Logic of the Entity from Which Evening Comes

Case particles as spatial logic

Propositional logic is of the form [Container Metaphor

Correspondence between "is/is not X" and "in/out of container

The predicate is of the form [simile of a simile of a simile of a simile

A predicate here is not a "predicate" of "subject predicate" but a predicate of "predicate logic

For example, if "Socrates" is represented by the term s, and P is the predicate symbol for "is a human being," then P(s) gives a logical formula with the truth "Socrates is a human being."

This P(s) is the predicate

Propositional logic plus predicates is classical logic

A is B" is a kind of

Dutch also has a corresponding expression for is (be verb) (is for third person singular)

At the time of the opening of the country, Japan did not have a corresponding expression.

A is B" = "In a container called A, B de al."

I'm not familiar with the term "container," but it means "B holds in a set that satisfies the condition A."

Japanese is not illogical and Japanese logic is not unique. The difference from Western languages is the ratio of the use of subject logic and spatial logic.

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