Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems
I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket&...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1979, 1979
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1979 |
| Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Non-Singular Reference: Some Preliminaries
- Some Bits and Pieces
- Some Remarks about Mass Nouns and Plurality
- The Indeterminacy of Mass Predication
- Sharvy on Mass Predication
- Four Ontologies
- On the Adequacy of a Type Ontology
- Theories of Matter
- On the Usefulness of Quantities
- An Analysis of Mass Terms and Amount Terms
- Afterthoughts on Mass Terms
- The Proper Treatment of Mass Terms in English
- Amounts and Measures of Amount
- Mass Terms, Count Nouns, and Change
- Stuff and Things
- Quantity and Quantification
- Sameness and Individuation
- Ensembles and the Formal Semantic Properties of Mass Terms
- Predication and Matter
- A Bibliography of Recent Work on Mass Terms
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects