Are there infinitely many sorts of things?

Philosophia 8 (1):17-30 (1978)
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An argument is given for Fred Sommers's thesis that the number of sorts of things, that is, the number of types or categories, discriminated by any natural language is always infinite.

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Charles Sayward
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Types and ontology.Fred Sommers - 1963 - Philosophical Review 72 (3):327-363.
Predicability.Fred Sommers - 1964 - In Max Black (ed.), Philosophy in America. Ithaca: Routledge. pp. 262--281.

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