Plural logic / Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliver, Alex, author.

Smiley, T. J. (Timothy John), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Number.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide an 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.

Contents:

The project

History

Changing the subject

Predicative analyses

Terms

singular and plural

The indeterminacy of plural denotation

Some basic ideas of plural logic

Plural descriptions

Multivalued functions

Lists

Singular logic

Mid-plural logic

Full plural logic

Cantorian set theory

Higher-level plural logic

Postscript: unfinished business.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 12, 2017).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-259315-3

0-19-259538-5

0-19-184387-3

OCLC:

1336402106