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Author Durrant, Michael

Title Revival
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the Author; Introduction: Aims and Plan of Campaign; A. Principal Aims; B. Sortals, Names, Descriptions, Predicables, Substantival General Tenns, Predicates; C. Plan of Campaign; I Sortals, Names and Predicables; A. Sortals: a Detailed Investigation; B. That Sortals are a Distinct Category of Symbol in that they are not Reducible to Names or Predicables/Predicates
C. Considerations on a General Thesis which may arise from the claim that Sortals are not Reducible to Predicables/PredicatesD. Summary of Chapter; II Sortals and Identification; Part I: The Priority of Sortal Identification over both Naming/Referring and Predication; A. Of the Priority of Sortal Identifying over Naming/Referring; B.A Case in which Referring may be taken as prior to Identifying; C. Consideration of a general attack on my thesis that Sortal Identification is prior to Naming/Referring
D. Some general arguments in favour of the thesis that Sortal Identification is prior to Describing or PredicatingPart II: The Contribution of Gareth Evans; E. An introduction to Evans: His concept of 'Demonstrative Identification'; F. That Sortal Identification is logically prior to Demonstrative Identification; G. The Case against Demonstrative Identification (1): the Misconstruction of Demonstrative Sortal Phrases; H. The Case against Demonstrative Identification (2): Consideration of a stronger and weaker thesis as regards its base
I. That Demonstrative Identification (in Evans' sense) rests on, presupposes, Descriptive Identification in his sense and indeed on Sortal IdentificationJ. In that Demonstrative Identification is to be regarded as a mode of Identification, as opposed to a mode of Reference, it is reducible to Sortal Identification, in the sense of 'Sortal Picking-Out', 'Sortal Discrimination' -- K. Of the relationship of 'Descriptive Identification' to 'Sortal Identification' and 'Predicate Identification' ; L. Summary of Conclusions from Part I and Part II; Part III: Thought and Speech
M. Of Evans' general thesis that Identification in Thought is prior to Identification in SpeechIII Sortals and the Subject-Predicate Distinction; A. Strawson's Objections to Geach's Explanation of the Subject-Predicate Distinction; B. Strawson's 'Mediating' Criterion for the Subject-Predicate Distinction; C. An Attempted Account of what distinguishes an expression occurring in the role of Logical Subject ; D. An Attempted Account of what distinguishes an expression occurring in the role of Logical Predicate
Notes E.A more Precise Account of the Relation between Sortals and the Subject-Predicate Distinction
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Subject Predicate
Language and logic
Semantics.
Semantics
semantics.
Language and logic
Semantics
Form Electronic book
Author Horton, Stephen
ISBN 9781351768276
1351768271