Bernhard Nickel

Between Logic and the World

An Integrated Theory of Generics

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Produktbeschreibung

In our everyday thought and talk, we put things into categories in order to generalize about them: 'Lions have manes', 'Ravens are black'. Bernhard Nickel presents a theory of generic sentences and the modes of thought they express, integrating compositional semantics with metaphysics to solve the problems of what they mean and how they work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780199640003
• ISBN-10: 0199640009
• Artikelnr.: 47865996

Autorenporträt

Bernhard Nickel is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His research interests lie in the philosophy of language and linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Genericity and Generics
I: Semantics
3: The Basic Semantics
4: Other Recent Work
5: Logical Complexity
6: Genericity and Gradability
II: Normality
7: A Definition of Normality
8: Linguistics--A Case Study
9: Coda: Onward, Upward, Inward, Outward
III: Appendices
A: Formal Results and Implementations
B: A Detailed Presentation of Free Choice Inferences