Mass Terms
Some Philosophical Problems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10690954 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold W Noonan (0000-0001-5538-5444), Francis Jeffry Pelletier (0000-0002-3399-2718) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 120 |
| Pages | 259 |
| Publication date | 1980-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2219255 |
| OpenAlex | W2162977793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
Non-Singular Reference: Some Preliminaries.- Some Bits and Pieces.- Some Remarks about Mass Nouns and Plurality.- The Indeterminacy of Mass Predication.- Sharvy on Mass Predication.- Four Ontologies.- On the Adequacy of a Type Ontology.- Theories of Matter.- On the Usefulness of Quantities.- An Analysis of Mass Terms and Amount Terms.- Afterthoughts on Mass Terms.- The Proper Treatment of Mass Terms in English.- Amounts and Measures of Amount.- Mass Terms, Count Nouns, and Change.- Stuff and Things.- Quantity and Quantification.- Sameness and Individuation.- Ensembles and the Formal Semantic Properties of Mass Terms.- Predication and Matter.- A Bibliography of Recent Work on Mass Terms.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects
A demarcation between good and bad constructivism
The Slavic suffix -in/-yn as partition shifter
Mass Nouns and Count Nouns in Classical Chinese
Metaphor as Reconciliation
Naming as a function of linguistic form-class and object categories
‘He has too much hard questions’
A distinção contável-massivo e a expressão de número no sistema nominal
A distinção contável-massivo nas línguas naturais
Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation
The algebra of events
The Explosion of Being
Demonstratives as bundlers of conceptual structure
Counting, measuring, and the fractional cardinalities puzzle
Does vagueness underlie the mass/count distinction
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2024 (40) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |