Francis Jeffry Pelletier

Biographic Data

ID3698181
NAMEFrancis Jeffry Pelletier
GIVEN NAMESFrancis Jeffry
FAMILY NAMEPelletier
SIGNATUREPELLETIER F J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alberta
ORCID0000-0002-3399-2718
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • Holism And Compositionality.

    Francis Jeffry PelletierBOOKThe Oxford handbook of…2012

    A brief acquaintance with the web shows that the terms ‘holism’ and ‘compositionality’ are used in many different fields, both academic and non-academic. And given any two academic fields, it is usually not obvious that the terms mean the same to the practitioners. Even just within philosophy and linguistics it seems that rather different conceptions are in play when we read any two different authors. We start, therefore, with a brief survey of s…

  • Logic

    Dov M Gabbay, Francis Jeffry Pelletier et al.BOOKLogic2012

  • Descriptive Metaphysics, Natural Language Metaphysics, Sapir-Whorf, and All That Stuff

    Open AccessFrancis Jeffry PelletierARTICLEThe Baltic International Yearbook…2010Cited by: 1References: 5

    Strawson (1959) described 'descriptive metaphysics', Bach (1986a) described 'natural language metaphysics', Sapir (1929) and Whorf (1940a,b, 1941) describe, well, Sapir-Whorfianism. And there are other views concerning the relation between correct semantic analysis of linguistic phenomena and the "reality" that is supposed to be thereby described. I think some considerations from the analyses of the mass-count distinction can shed some light on t…

  • Foundations of Intensional Semantics

    Open AccessFrancis Jeffry PelletierARTICLEComputational Linguistics2006

  • Representation and Inference for Natural Language

    Open AccessFrancis Jeffry PelletierARTICLEComputational Linguistics2006Cited by: 3

    This book introduces fundamental techniques for computing semantic representations for fragments of natural language and performing inference with the result. The prinary tools used are first-order logic and lambda calculus. All the techniques introduced are implemented in Prolog. The book also shown how to use theorem provers and model builders in parallel to deal with natrual language inference

  • The Case for Psychologism in Default and Inheritance Reasoning

    Open AccessFrancis Jeffry Pelletier, Renée ElioARTICLESynthese2005Cited by: 2References: 46

  • The Principle of Semantic Compositionality

    Francis Jeffry PelletierCHAPTERSemantics2004

    The Principle of Semantic Compositionality is the principle that the meaning of an expression is a function of, and only of, the meanings of its parts together with the method by which those parts are combined. As stated, the Principle is vague or underspecified at a number of points such as “what counts as a part,” “what is a meaning,” “what kind of function is allowed,” and the like. But this hasn’t stopped some people from treating it as an ob…

  • The Generic Book

    Heather Mateyak, Gregory N Carlson et al.ARTICLELanguage1997

    This work consists of an introduction and 11 articles on important aspects of the interpretation of generic expressions. The introduction provides a clear overview of various issues and synthesizes the major analytical approaches to them. Taken together, the papers that follow reflect the current state of the art in the semantics of generics, and afford insight into various generic phenomena

  • Parmenides, Plato and the Semantics of Not-Being

    Philippe Constantineau, Francis Jeffry PelletierARTICLEPhoenix1993

    Commentaire sur « Parmenides, Plato and the Semantics of Not-Being » (1990) de F.J.Pelletier, portant sur la reponse formulee par Platon dans le « Sophiste » a l'argument du non-etre de Parmenide. L'A. recommande ce livre pour son analyse pertinente de la partie centrale du « Sophiste »

  • Parmenides, Plato, and the Semantics of Not-Being

    Michael Morris, Francis Jeffry PelletierARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1992

  • Mass Terms

    Harold W Noonan, Francis Jeffry PelletierARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1980

    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.- M…

  • The generative power of rule orderings in formal grammars

    Open AccessFrancis Jeffry PelletierARTICLELinguistics1980Cited by: 1

  • Sameness and Referential Opacity in Aristotle

    Francis Jeffry PelletierARTICLENoûs1979

    It is well-known that Aristotle wrote a lot about sameness. It is also widely believed that the concept of sameness in Aristotle underwent drastic revision-from being more-or-less like the modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish to call 'identity' at all.' In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a weak grip on the concept); in Metaphysics V (la…

  • Or

    Francis Jeffry PelletierARTICLETheoretical Linguistics1977

  • A bibliography of recent work on mass terms

    Open AccessFrancis Jeffry PelletierARTICLESynthese1975

  • Incompatibility” in Plato's Sophist

    Open AccessFrancis Jeffry PelletierARTICLEDialogue1975References: 4

    I want to consider a much-disputed reading of a certain critical area of Plato's Sophist . It is widely agreed by most commentators that in this text, between 255E and 259E there occurs a refutation of Parmenides' dictum that “one cannot say that which is not”, and that this is followed by an application of the foregoing discussion to the problems of sentiential falsity. (For a partial list of commentators, see bibliography.) It is also generally…