Between logic and the world: an integrated theory of generics
Auteur :
Nickel, Bernhard
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199640003
Date de publication :
24 mars 2016
Dimensions :
23,5 x 16,2 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
556 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.