Unity and Plurality

Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics

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ID8081999
AuthorsMoltmann Friederike
EditorsMassimiliano Carrara (0000-0002-3509-1585, corresponding author), Alexandra Arapinis, Friederike Moltmann (0000-0003-3269-8186)
Year2016
Pages256
Publication date2016-03-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueUnity and Plurality (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716327.001.0001
OpenAlexW4289878763
Open LibraryOL27708792M
ISBN9780198716327
LanguageEN
Citations received3

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.0A 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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