Title:  Rethinking Logical Consequence

Abstract:  Etchemendy’s On the Concept of Logical Consequence (1999) distinguishes two ways of thinking about logical models. On the first (metaphysical) models represent different ways the world might be, on the second (semantic) they represent different reinterpretations of the non-logical parts of the formal language. In this paper I argue for a third view, on which models represent different Combinations of language with the world (a kind of hybrid of the metaphysical and semantic views) and show how to use this approach to characterise a novel conception of informal logical consequence.