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1 online resource (xvi, 202 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction -- 1. A Proposed Semantical Solution to the So-called -- 'Problem of Mass Nouns' -- 1.0 Metaphysics without bodies -- 1.1 Metaphysics without physical objects -- 1.2 Persistence, things, and stuff -- 1.3 Unity, identity, and the semantic turn -- 1.4 A proposed semantical solution to the so-called 'problem of mass nouns' -- 1.5 Non-singular identities and definite non-count descriptions -- 1.6 Syntax, semantics, metaphysics: bridging the apparent gaps -- 1.7 Counting and measuring -- 1.8 Post mortem on 'mass nouns' -- 2. In Thrall to the Idea of The One -- 2.0 The supposed exhaustiveness of singular reference |
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2.1 'The many bundled as 'the one' -- 2.2 Plurality and two conceptions of group-talk -- 2.3 Two kinds of motivation for collections -- 2.4 Collective reference -- 2.5 Collective predication and 'the class as many' -- 2.6 Platonism: 'the class as many' as an object -- 2.7 Nominalism: 'the class as many' as no object -- 2.8 The variable of many values -- 2.9 Collections born again -- 3. Non-count Descriptions and Non-singularity -- 3.0 'The much' repackaged as 'the one' -- 3.1 Conditions of uniqueness -- 3.2 The Theory of Descriptions (yet again) defended -- 3.3 The mechanics of non-count descriptions -- 3.4 Non-distributive predication -- 4. Quantification and its Discontents -- 4.0 The classical model -- 4.1 Roadblocks to non-singularity; meaning and truth-conditions -- 4.2 Non-singular quantification: the distinct semantic powers of 'all' and 'some' -- 4.3 Generality and distribution en masse -- 4.4 The non-count cases -- 4.5 Variables, instances, and samples -- 5. The Ideal Language Project and the Non-discrete -- 5.0 Ideal languages -- 5.1 Conditions for transparency -- 5.2 Power versus clarity -- 5.3 Reference and material 'non-entities' -- 5.4 The realms of multiplicity and unity -- 5.5 Two kinds of plural sentences -- 5.6 Concrete and generic non-count sentences and their material basis -- 5.7 The reality of substances |
| Summary |
A picture of the world as one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is one of the main targets of the author for it is seriously incomplete and leaves no place for 'stuff' like air and water. He also questions how we categorize the many and the much |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-196) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Semantics.
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Ontology.
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Object (Philosophy)
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Substance (Philosophy)
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semantics.
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ontology (metaphysics)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Object (Philosophy)
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Ontology
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Semantics
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Semantics (Philosophy)
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Substance (Philosophy)
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Ontologie
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Singularetantum
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Semantik
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Singularität Philosophie
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Logica.
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Ontologie (filosofie)
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Semantiek.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435623880 |
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1435623886 |
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9780191603594 |
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0191603597 |
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1281153915 |
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9781281153913 |
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9786611153915 |
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6611153918 |
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0191535915 |
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9780191535918 |
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