Plural Predication

Name: Plural Predication
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ISBN: 9780199278145

ISBN-10: 0199278148

ISBN-13: 9780199278145

Edition: 2006

Authors: Thomas McKay

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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 without relying on singularizing procedures from set theory and mereology. The fundamental 'among'…

Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.78" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



A formal language with non-distributive plurals: preliminary considerations



Against singularism



Semantics



Natural language issues



Set theoretic semantics



Among



The: the basic logic



The: context sensitivity



Pronouns



Plurals and events