Plural Predication
Oxford University Press (2006)
| Abstract | Plural predication is a pervasive part of ordinary language. We can say that some people are fifty in number, are surrounding a building, come from many countries, and are classmates. These predicates can be true of some people without being true of any one of them; they are non-distributive predications. However, the apparatus of modern logic does not allow a place for them. Thomas McKay here explores the enrichment of logic with non-distributive plural predication and quantification. His book will be of great interest to philosophers of language, linguists, metaphysicians, and logicians. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Semantics (Philosophy Language and languages Philosophy Predicate (Logic Grammar, Comparative and general Number Logic | |||||||||
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| Call number | B840.M435 2006 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0199278148 9780199278145 | |||||||||
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