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Between Logic and the World - An Integrated Theory of Generics (Paperback)
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Between Logic and the World - An Integrated Theory of Generics (Paperback)
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Between Logic and the World presents a theory of generic sentences
and the kind-directed modes of thought they express. The theory
closely integrates compositional semantics with metaphysics to
solve the problem that generics pose: what do generics mean?
Generic sentences are extremely simple, yet if there are patterns
to be discerned in terms of which are true and which are false,
these patterns are subtle and complex. Ravens are black, lions have
manes, sea-turtles are long-lived, and bishops in chess move along
diagonals. Statistical measures cannot do justice to the facts, but
what else is there that at least has a hope of giving us insight
into what we are capturing across so many domains? Bernhard Nickel
argues that generics are the top of a fundamentally explanatory
iceberg. By focusing on blackness in ravens and manes in lions, for
instance, we can place the kinds into a framework structured by
explanatory considerations. Between Logic and the World argues that
this explanatory framework is deeply intertwined with the semantics
of the language we use to express them, and in giving its
integrated semantic and metaphysical theory of generics, it aims to
solve old puzzles and draw attention to new phenomena.
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