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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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    Multiple Conclusion Logic.D. J. Shoesmith & Timothy John Smiley - 1978 - Cambridge, England / New York London Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Edited by T. J. Smiley.
    Multiple -conclusion logic extends formal logic by allowing arguments to have a set of conclusions instead of a single one, the truth lying somewhere among the conclusions if all the premises are true. The extension opens up interesting possibilities based on the symmetry between premises and conclusions, and can also be used to throw fresh light on the conventional logic and its limitations. This is a sustained study of the subject and is certain to stimulate further research. Part I reworks (...)
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  3. Rejection.Timothy Smiley - 1996 - Analysis 56 (1):1–9.
  4. What is a syllogism?Timothy J. Smiley - 1973 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (1):136 - 154.
  5. 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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  7. Can Contradictions Be True?Timothy Smiley & Graham Priest - 1993 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 67 (1):17 - 54.
  8. (1 other version)Relative necessity.Timothy Smiley - 1963 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 28 (2):113-134.
  9. Sense without Denotation.Timothy Smiley - 1959 - Analysis 20 (6):125 - 135.
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    (1 other version)The independence of connectives.Timothy Smiley - 1962 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 27 (4):426-436.
  11. A tale of two tortoises.Timothy Smiley - 1995 - Mind 104 (416):725-736.
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. (1 other version)Syllogism and quantification.Timothy Smiley - 1962 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 27 (1):58-72.
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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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    Abstraction by Recarving.Michael Potter & Timothy Smiley - 2001 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 101 (3):327-338.
    Explains why Bob Hale's proposed notion of weak sense cannot explain the analyticity of Hume's principle as he claims. Argues that no other notion of the sort Hale wants could do the job either.
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    Aristotle’s Completeness Proof.Timothy Smiley - 1994 - Ancient Philosophy 14 (S1):25-38.
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    The theory of descriptions.Timothy Smiley - 2004 - In Thomas Baldwin & Timothy Smiley (eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge. New York: Oup/British Academy. pp. 131--61.
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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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    Recarving Content: Hale's Final Proposal.Michael Potter & Timothy Smiley - 2002 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (3):301-304.
    A follow-up, showing why Bob Hale's revision of his notion of weak sense is still inadequate.
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  21. Is plural denotation collective?Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2008 - Analysis 68 (1):22–34.
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    On Ł ukasiewicz's ${\rm \L}$-modal system.Timothy Smiley - 1961 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 2 (3):149-153.
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    Hunter on Conditionals.Timothy Smiley - 1984 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 84 (1):241-250.
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  24. What are sets and what are they for?Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley - 2006 - Philosophical Perspectives 20 (1):123–155.
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    I*—The Presidential Address: The Schematic Fallacy.Timothy Smiley - 1983 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 83 (1):1-18.
    Timothy Smiley; I*—The Presidential Address: The Schematic Fallacy, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 83, Issue 1, 1 June 1983, Pages 1–18, https.
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    On Lukasiewcz's L - modal system.Timothy Smiley - 1961 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 2:149.
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  27. Frege and Russell.Timothy J. Smiley - 1981 - Epistemologia 4 (1):53.
     
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  28. (1 other version)Philosophical Logic.Timothy Smiley - 2001 - Studia Logica 68 (3):419-420.
     
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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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    (2 other versions)Logical Studies.Timothy Smiley - 1957 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (3):460-462.
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  32. 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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    Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge.Thomas Baldwin & Timothy Smiley (eds.) - 2004 - New York: Oup/British Academy.
    Questions about knowledge, and about the relation between logic and language, are at the heart of philosophy. Eleven distinguished philosophers from Britain and America contribute papers on such questions. All the contributions are examples of recent philosophy at its best. The first half of the book constitutes a running debate about knowledge, evidence and doubt. The second half tackles questions about logic and its relation to language.
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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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    von Wright G. H.. A note on entailment. The philosophical quarterly, vol. 9 , pp. 363–365.Timothy Smiley - 1970 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (3):462.
  36. Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein.Timothy Smiley - 1995 - In Timothy John Smiley (ed.), Philosophical Dialogues: Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein. Oxford University Press.
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    (1 other version)A. N. Prior. The ethical copula. Papers in logic and ethics, by A. N. Prior, edited by P. T. Geach and A. J. P. Kenny, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, and Duckworth, London, 1976, pp. 9–24. , pp. 137-154.) - A. N. Prior. Entities. A reprint of XXI 318. Papers in logic and ethics, by A. N. Prior, edited by P. T. Geach and A. J. P. Kenny, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, and Duckworth, London, 1976, , pp. 25–32. - A. N. Prior. Berkeley in logical form. Papers in logic and ethics, by A. N. Prior, edited by P. T. Geach and A. J. P. Kenny, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, and Duckworth, London, 1976, , pp. 117–122.) - A. N. Prior. Definitions, rules and axioms. Papers in logic and ethics, by A. N. Prior, edited by P. T. Geach and A. J. P. Kenny, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, and Duckworth, London, 1976, pp. 39–55. , pp. 199–216.) - A. N. Prior. On some proofs of the existence of God. Papers in logic and ethics, by A. N. Prior, edited by P. T. [REVIEW]Timothy Smiley - 1980 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 45 (1):180-183.
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    (1 other version)Review: G. H. von Wright, A Note on Entailment. [REVIEW]Timothy Smiley - 1970 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (3):462-462.