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Unity and Plurality - Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics (Hardcover)
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Unity and Plurality - Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics (Hardcover)
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Unity and Plurality presents novel ways of thinking about plurality
while casting new light on the interconnections among the logical,
philosophical, and linguistic aspects of plurals. The volume brings
together new work on the logic and ontology of plurality and on the
semantics of plurals in natural language. Plural reference, the
view that definite plurals such as 'the students' refer to several
entities at once (the individual students), is an approach favoured
by logicians and philosophers, who take sentences with plurals
('the students gathered') not to be committed to entities beyond
individuals, entities such as classes, sums, or sets. By contrast,
linguistic semantics has been dominated by a singularist approach
to plurals, taking the semantic value of a definite plural such as
'the students' to be a mereological sum or set. Moreover, semantics
has been dominated by a particular ontological view of plurality,
that of extensional mereology. This volume aims to build a bridge
between the two traditions and to show the fruitfulness of
nonstandard mereological approaches. A team of leading experts
investigates new perspectives that arise from plural logic and
non-standard mereology and explore novel applications to natural
language phenomena.
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