Between logic and the world: an integrated theory of generics
Auteur :
Nickel, Bernhard
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198822615
Date de publication :
27 juin 2019
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,3 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
442 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.