Plural predication / Thomas J. McKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKay, Thomas J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics (Philosophy).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Predicate (Logic).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Number.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 263 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Yet the apparatus of predication and quantification in standard modern logic does not allow a place for such non-distributive predicates. Thomas McKay's book explores the enrichment of modern logic with plural predication and quantification. We can have genuinely non-distributive predication

Contents:

A formal language with non-distributive plurals : preliminary considerations

Against singularism

Semantics

Natural language issues

Set theoretic semantics

Among

The : basic logic

The : context sensitivity

Pronouns

Plurals and events.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-260) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-90590-5

9786610905904

0-19-153520-6

1-4356-2346-0

OCLC:

191827094