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Carte Between Logic and the World Bernhard Nickel

Between Logic and the World

An Integrated Theory of Generics

Autor: Bernhard Nickel
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Oxford University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
Expediem în 10-18 zile
499.00 lei
Between Logic and the World presents a theory of generic sentences and the kind-directed modes of th...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Bernhard Nickel
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2016
Pagini
288
EAN
9780199640003
ISBN
0199640009
Enbook ID
09521004
Editura
Oxford University Press
Greutate
556
Dimensiuni
241 x 165 x 22

Descriere completă

Between Logic and the World presents a theory of generic sentences and the kind-directed modes of thought they express. The theory closely integrates compositional semantics with metaphysics to solve the problem that generics pose: what do generics mean? Generic sentences are extremely simple, yet if there are patterns to be discerned in terms of which are true and which are false, these patterns are subtle and complex. Ravens are black, lions have manes, sea-turtles are long-lived, and bishops in chess move along diagonals. Statistical measures cannot do justice to the facts, but what else is there that at least has a hope of giving us insight into what we are capturing across so many domains? Bernhard Nickel argues that generics are the top of a fundamentally explanatory iceberg. By focusing on blackness in ravens and manes in lions, for instance, we can place the kinds into a framework structured by explanatory considerations. Between Logic and the World argues that this explanatory framework is deeply intertwined with the semantics of the language we use to express them, and in giving its integrated semantic and metaphysical theory of generics, it aims to solve old puzzles and draw attention to new phenomena.

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