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Words Without Objects
Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity
Buch von Henry Laycock
Sprache: Englisch

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A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is however one of the main targets of Henry Laycock's book; for it is seriously incomplete. The picture, he argues, leaves no space for "stuff" like air and water. With discrete objects, we may always ask "how many?," but with stuff the question has to be "how much?" Laycock's fascinating exploration also addresses key logical and linguistic questions about the way we categorize the many and the much.
A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is however one of the main targets of Henry Laycock's book; for it is seriously incomplete. The picture, he argues, leaves no space for "stuff" like air and water. With discrete objects, we may always ask "how many?," but with stuff the question has to be "how much?" Laycock's fascinating exploration also addresses key logical and linguistic questions about the way we categorize the many and the much.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: A proposed semantical solution to the so-called 'problem of mass nouns'

  • 2: In thrall to the idea of The One

  • 3: Non-count descriptions and non-singularity

  • 4: Quantification and its discontents

  • 5: The Ideal Language project and the non-discrete

  • Appendix I: Atomism

  • Appendix II: Substances and physical objects: Quine's labyrinth

  • Appendix III: Reductive approaches to non-singularity

  • Appendix IV: The gradual transition from count nouns to pure non-count nouns

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780199281718
ISBN-10: 0199281718
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Laycock, Henry
Hersteller: Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Henry Laycock
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2006
Gewicht: 0,431 kg
Artikel-ID: 133174526
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: A proposed semantical solution to the so-called 'problem of mass nouns'

  • 2: In thrall to the idea of The One

  • 3: Non-count descriptions and non-singularity

  • 4: Quantification and its discontents

  • 5: The Ideal Language project and the non-discrete

  • Appendix I: Atomism

  • Appendix II: Substances and physical objects: Quine's labyrinth

  • Appendix III: Reductive approaches to non-singularity

  • Appendix IV: The gradual transition from count nouns to pure non-count nouns

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780199281718
ISBN-10: 0199281718
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Laycock, Henry
Hersteller: Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Henry Laycock
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2006
Gewicht: 0,431 kg
Artikel-ID: 133174526
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