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A classical viewpoint claims that reality consists of both things and stuff, and that we need a way to discuss these aspects of reality. This is achieved by using +count terms to talk about things while using +mass terms to talk about stuff. Bringing together contributions from internationally-renowned experts across interrelated disciplines, this book explores the relationship between mass and count nouns in a number of syntactic environments, and across a range of languages. It both explains how languages differ in their methods for describing these two fundamental categories of reality, and shows the many ways that modern linguistics looks to describe them. It also explores how the notions of count and mass apply to 'abstract nouns', adding a new dimension to the countability discussion. With its pioneering approach to the fundamental questions surrounding mass-count distinction, this book will be essential reading for researchers in formal semantics and linguistic typology.
The Handbook of the History of Logic is a multi-volume research
instrument that brings to the development of logic the best in
modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. It
is the first work in English in which the history of logic is
presented so extensively. The volumes are numerous and large.
Authors have been given considerable latitude to produce chapters
of a length, and a level of detail, that would lay fair claim on
the ambitions of the project to be a definitive research work.
Authors have been carefully selected with this aim in mind. They
and the Editors join in the conviction that a knowledge of the
history of logic is nothing but beneficial to the subject's
present-day research programmes. One of the attractions of the
Handbook's several volumes is the emphasis they give to the
enduring relevance of developments in logic throughout the ages,
including some of the earliest manifestations of the subject.
A classical viewpoint claims that reality consists of both things and stuff, and that we need a way to discuss these aspects of reality. This is achieved by using +count terms to talk about things while using +mass terms to talk about stuff. Bringing together contributions from internationally-renowned experts across interrelated disciplines, this book explores the relationship between mass and count nouns in a number of syntactic environments, and across a range of languages. It both explains how languages differ in their methods for describing these two fundamental categories of reality, and shows the many ways that modern linguistics looks to describe them. It also explores how the notions of count and mass apply to 'abstract nouns', adding a new dimension to the countability discussion. With its pioneering approach to the fundamental questions surrounding mass-count distinction, this book will be essential reading for researchers in formal semantics and linguistic typology.
A generic statement is a type of generalization that is made by
asserting that a "kind" has a certain property. For example we
might hear that marshmallows are sweet. Here, we are talking about
the "kind" marshmallow and assert that individual instances of this
kind have the property of being sweet. Almost all of our common
sense knowledge about the everyday world is put in terms of generic
statements. What can make these generic sentences be true even when
there are exceptions? A mass term is one that does not "divide its
reference;" the word water is a mass term; the word dog is a count
term. In a certain vicinity, one can count and identity how many
dogs there are, but it doesn't make sense to do that for
water--there just is water present. The philosophical literature is
rife with examples concerning how a thing can be composed of a
mass, such as a statue being composed of clay. Both generic
statements and mass terms have led philosophers, linguists,
semanticists, and logicians to search for theories to accommodate
these phenomena and relationships.
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