Plural Predication
Book Details
Author(s)Thomas McKay
PublisherClarendon Press
ISBN / ASIN0199278148
ISBN-139780199278145
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Sales Rank2,016,086
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Plural predication is a pervasive part of ordinary language. We can say that some people are fifty in number, are surrounding a building, come from many countries, and are classmates. These predicates can be true of some people without being true of any one of them; they are non-distributive predications. However, the apparatus of modern logic does not allow a place for them. Thomas McKay here explores the enrichment of logic with non-distributive plural predication and quantification. His book will be of great interest to philosophers of language, linguists, metaphysicians, and logicians.
