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Plural logic
- Title
- Plural logic / Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley.
- Author
- Oliver, Alex
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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- Additional Authors
- Smiley, T. J. (Timothy John)
- Description
- xiv, 383 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide the natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms, plural predicates, and plural quantification. Current logic is singularist: its terms stand for at most one thing. By contrast, the foundational thesis of this book is that a particular term may legitimately stand for several things at once; in other words, there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation. The authors argue that plural phenomena need to be taken seriously and that the only viable response is to adopt a plural logic, a logic based on plural denotation. They expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists. A formal system of plural logic is presented in three stages. This second edition includes a greatly expanded treatment of the paradigm empty term zilch, a much strengthened treatment of Cantorian set theory, and a new chapter on higher-level plural logic."
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-356) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3316
- ISBN
- 9780198744382
- 0198744382
- LCCN
- 2017288045
- OCLC
- 965118067
- Author
- Oliver, Alex, author.
- Title
- Plural logic / Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-356) and index.
- Added Author
- Smiley, T. J. (Timothy John), author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3316