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1 online resource (333 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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E.A more Precise Account of the Relation between Sortals and the Subject-Predicate Distinction |
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Predicate
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Language and logic
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Semantics.
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Semantics
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semantics.
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Language and logic
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Semantics
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Electronic book
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Author |
Horton, Stephen
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ISBN |
9781351768276 |
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1351768271 |
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