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  1. Plural Logic.Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2013 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press UK. Edited by T. J. Smiley.
    Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a new account of plural logic. They argue that there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation in logic, and expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists.
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  2. The metaphysics of properties.Alex Oliver - 1996 - Mind 105 (417):1-80.
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  3. Properties.David Hugh Mellor & Alex Oliver (eds.) - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    When we say a certain rose is red, we seem to be attributing a property, redness, to it. But are there really such properties? If so, what are they like, how do we know about them, and how are they related to the objects which have them and the linguistic devices which we use to talk about them? This collection presents these ancient problems in a modern light. In particular, it makes accessible for the first time the most important contributions (...)
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  4. Multigrade predicates.Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2004 - Mind 113 (452):609-681.
    The history of the idea of predicate is the history of its emancipation. The lesson of this paper is that there are two more steps to take. The first is to recognize that predicates need not have a fixed degree, the second that they can combine with plural terms. We begin by articulating the notion of a multigrade predicate: one that takes variably many arguments. We counter objections to the very idea posed by Peirce, Dummett's Frege, and Strawson. We show (...)
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    Plural Logic: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2016 - Oxford University Press.
    Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a new account of plural logic. They argue that there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation in logic, and expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Frege.Michael Potter, Joan Weiner, Warren Goldfarb, Peter Sullivan, Alex Oliver & Thomas Ricketts (eds.) - 2010 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the scope and importance of Gottlob Frege's work.
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  7. Plural descriptions and many-valued functions.Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2005 - Mind 114 (456):1039-1068.
    Russell had two theories of definite descriptions: one for singular descriptions, another for plural descriptions. We chart its development, in which ‘On Denoting’ plays a part but not the part one might expect, before explaining why it eventually fails. We go on to consider many-valued functions, since they too bring in plural terms—terms such as ‘4’ or the descriptive ‘the inhabitants of London’ which, like plain plural descriptions, stand for more than one thing. Logicians need to take plural reference seriously (...)
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  8. Zilch.Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2013 - Analysis 73 (4):601-613.
    We all learn about the mistake of treating ‘nothing’ as if it were a term standing for something; but is it a mistake to treat it as an empty term, denoting nothing? We argue not, and we introduce ‘zilch’, defined as ‘the non-self-identical thing’, as a term which is empty as a matter of logical necessity. We contrast its behaviour with that of the quantifier ‘nothing’, and illustrate its uses. We use the same idea to vindicate Locke’s, Descartes’ and Hume’s (...)
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    A Modest Logic of Plurals.Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2006 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 35 (3):317-348.
    We present a plural logic that is as expressively strong as it can be without sacrificing axiomatisability, axiomatise it, and use it to chart the expressive limits set by axiomatisability. To the standard apparatus of quantification using singular variables our object-language adds plural variables, a predicate expressing inclusion (is/are/is one of/are among), and a plural definite description operator. Axiomatisability demands that plural variables only occur free, but they have a surprisingly important role. Plural description is not eliminable in favour of (...)
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  10. A few more remarks on logical form.Alex Oliver - 1999 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (3):247–272.
    Yah boo sucks to the grammer wot we lernt in skool! Grammar (and the bad old traditional logic) says that quantifier phrases such as 'nobody', 'everyone', 'all women', 'some men' and 'a man' are in the same category as names such as 'Milly', 'Molly' and 'Mandy'. So, prior to their first corrective lessons, students are awfully muddled, the first and fundamental problem being the Woozle hunt for somebody called 'nobody'. Hoorah for modern logic and logic teachers! The story used to (...)
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    The Reference Principle.A. Oliver - 2005 - Analysis 65 (3):177-187.
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  12. Could There Be Conjunctive Universals?Alex Oliver - 1992 - Analysis 52 (2):88 - 97.
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  13. (1 other version)Frege and Dummett are two.Alex Oliver - 1994 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (174):74-82.
    In "Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics" Dummett recommends the following thesis, (PNP): the correct analysis of any sentence containing a plural noun phrase will show that the phrase is functioning predictively. According to Dummett, (PNP), applied to numerical predications such as the leaves are 1,000' is the key premise in Frege's argument against Mill's theory of numbers. But Frege never subscribed to (PNP) and he rejected such numerical predications, and point out how Frege's own semantic theory for plural noun phrases obscures (...)
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    Hazy Totalities and Indefinitely Extensible Concepts.Alex Oliver - 1998 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 55 (1):25-50.
    Dummctt argues that classical quantification is illegitimate when the domain is given as the objects which fall under an indefinitely extensible concept, since in such cases the objects are not the required definite totality. The chief problem in understanding this complex argument is the crucial but unexplained phrase 'definite totality' and the associated claim that it follows from the intuitive notion of set that the objects over which a classical quantifier ranges form a set. 'Definite totality' is best understood as (...)
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    The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley.Jonathan Lear & Alex Oliver (eds.) - 2009 - New York: Routledge.
    Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotle’s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection, and has worked to debunk the theory of descriptions. This volume brings together new articles by an international roster of leading logicians and philosophers in order to honour Smiley’s work. Their essays will be of significant interest to those working across the logical spectrum—in philosophy of (...)
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    Cantorian set theory.Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2018 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 24 (4):393-451.
    Almost all set theorists pay at least lip service to Cantor’s definition of a set as a collection of many things into one whole; but empty and singleton sets do not fit with it. Adapting Dana Scott’s axiomatization of the cumulative theory of types, we present a ‘Cantorian’ system which excludes these anomalous sets. We investigate the consequences of their omission, examining their claim to a place on grounds of convenience, and asking whether their absence is an obstacle to the (...)
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  17. The matter of form : logic's beginnings.Alex Oliver - 2009 - In Jonathan Lear & Alex Oliver (eds.), The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley. New York: Routledge. pp. 165-185.
     
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  18. Is plural denotation collective?Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2008 - Analysis 68 (1):22–34.
  19. Are Subclasses Parts of Classes?Alex Oliver - 1994 - Analysis 54 (4):215 - 223.
    The fundamental thesis of David Lewis's "Parts of Classes" is that the nonempty subsets of a set are mereological parts of it. This paper shows that Lewis's considerations in favor of this thesis are unpersuasive. First, common speech provides no support. Second, the formal analogy between mereology and the Boolean algebra of sets can be explained without accepting the thesis. Third, it is very doubtful that the thesis is fruitful. Certainly, Lewis's claim that it helps us understand set theory is (...)
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  20. What are sets and what are they for?Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2006 - Philosophical Perspectives 20 (1):123–155.
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    A realistic rationalism?Alex Oliver - 2000 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (1):111 – 135.
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    Classes and Goodman's Nominalism.Alex Oliver - 1993 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93:179 - 191.
    Alex Oliver; Discussions: Classes and Goodman's Nominalism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 93, Issue 1, 1 June 1993, Pages 179–192, https://doi.
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    Dummett and Frege on the philosophy of mathematics.Alex Oliver - 1994 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 37 (3):349 – 392.
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    Plural Logic: Revised Paperback Edition.Alex Oliver & Timothy John Smiley - 2015 - Oxford: Oxford University Press UK. Edited by T. J. Smiley.
    Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a new account of plural logic. They argue that there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation in logic, and expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists.
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    Snyder and Shapiro’s Critique of Pseudo-Singularity.Alexander Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2022 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 11 (4):226-231.
    Call a term ‘pseudo-singular’ if it is syntactically singular but semantically plural. ‘The pair who wrote Principia’ is a good example, standing as it does for the two individuals, Whitehead and Russell. In this journal (2021), Eric Snyder and Stewart Shapiro launched an attack on the idea, calling it ‘linguistically and logically untenable.’ In this reply we rebut every one of their criticisms.
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    The metaphysics of singletons.Alex Oliver - 1992 - Mind 101 (401):129-140.
  27. Sharvy's theory of descriptions: A paradigm subverted.Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2009 - Analysis 69 (3):412-421.
    1. ExpositionRichard Sharvy's ‘A more general theory of definite descriptions’ was published in 1980. Its aim was to replace Russell's paradigm by " a general theory of definite descriptions, of which definite mass descriptions, definite plural descriptions, and Russellian definite singular count descriptions are species. … We have an account of the generic ‘the’ along these same lines. " By now his theory has attained the status of a new paradigm. Even a casual trawl of the literature throws up over (...)
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    Discussions: Classes and Goodman's Nominalism.Alex Oliver - 1993 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93 (1):179-192.
    Alex Oliver; Discussions: Classes and Goodman's Nominalism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 93, Issue 1, 1 June 1993, Pages 179–192, https://doi.
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    Donald Davidson.Alex Oliver - 1992 - Philosophical Books 33 (3):148-150.
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    Erata: What Are Sets and What Are They For?Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2007 - Noûs 41 (2):354 -.
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    Ghost writers.A. Oliver & A. Schmeinong - 2000 - Analysis 60 (4):371-371.
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    Trade Marks as Property: A Philosophical Perspective.Dominic Scott, Alex Oliver & Miguel Ley-Pineda - 2008 - In Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis & Jane C. Ginsburg (eds.), Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique. Cambridge University Press. pp. 285-305.
    In this chapter, we investigate the idea of trade marks as property. Three questions need to be answered. The first is a conceptual matter: are trade marks capable of being property or are they ruled out as a matter of conceptual necessity? The second is conceptual-cum-descriptive: is the current law's treatment of trade marks treatment of them as property? The third is normative: if the current law does in fact treat them as property, is it right to do so? The (...)
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  33. (1 other version)Logic, Mathematics, and Philosophy: Review of G. Boolos, Logic, Logic, and Logic[REVIEW]Alex Oliver - 2000 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (4):857-873.
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    A World of States of Affairs. [REVIEW]Alex Oliver - 1998 - Journal of Philosophy 95 (10):535-540.
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Alex Oliver - 1993 - Mind 102 (407):497-500.
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