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• catalog abstract ""A sortal is a symbol which furnishes us with a principle for distinguishing and counting particulars (objects), and which does so in its own right relying on no antecedent principle or method of so distinguishing or counting. This book explores sortals and their relationship to the subject-predicate distinction; arguing that the nature of sortal symbols has been misconstrued in much modern writing in the philosophy of logic by failing to distinguish sortals from names and predicates; contending that this misconstruction has led to a failure to appreciate what makes the subject-predicate distinction possible; demonstrating logical difficulties which then follow; and expounding an account of sortal symbols which seeks to be immune from the difficulties. Exploring and challenging aspects of the work of Frege, Russell, Geach, Quine, Evans and Strawson, amongst others, Durrant also provides a new challenge to certain popular presuppositions employed in many areas of contemporary philosophical debate, and offers important insights for those studying across philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics and epistemology, in particular."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12165492.
• catalog contributor b12165493.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""A sortal is a symbol which furnishes us with a principle for distinguishing and counting particulars (objects), and which does so in its own right relying on no antecedent principle or method of so distinguishing or counting. This book explores sortals and their relationship to the subject-predicate distinction; arguing that the nature of sortal symbols has been misconstrued in much modern writing in the philosophy of logic by failing to distinguish sortals from names and predicates; contending that this misconstruction has led to a failure to appreciate what makes the subject-predicate distinction possible; demonstrating logical difficulties which then follow; and expounding an account of sortal symbols which seeks to be immune from the difficulties. Exploring and challenging aspects of the work of Frege, Russell, Geach, Quine, Evans and Strawson, amongst others, Durrant also provides a new challenge to certain popular presuppositions employed in many areas of contemporary philosophical debate, and offers important insights for those studying across philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics and epistemology, in particular."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-314) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction to the Author / Roger Trigg -- Sortals, Names, Descriptions, Predicables, Substantival General Terms, Predicates -- Plan of Campaign -- Sortals, Names and Predicables -- Sortals: a Detailed Investigation -- That Sortals are a Distinct Category of Symbol in that they are not Reducible to Names or Predicables/Predicates -- Considerations on a General Thesis which may arise from the claim that Sortals are not Reducible to Predicables/Predicates -- Sortals and Identification -- The Priority of Sortal Identification over both Naming/Referring and Predication -- Of the Priority of Sortal Identifying over Naming/Referring -- A Case in which Referring may be taken as prior to Identifying -- Consideration of a general attack on my thesis that Sortal Identification is prior to Naming/Referring -- Some general arguments in favour of the thesis that Sortal Identification is prior to Describing or Predicating -- The Contribution of Gareth Evans -- An introduction to Evans: His concept of 'Demonstrative Identification' -- That Sortal Identification is logically prior to Demonstrative Identification -- The Case against Demonstrative Identification (1): the Misconstruction of Demonstrative Sortal Phrases -- The Case against Demonstrative Identification (2): Consideration of a stronger and weaker thesis as regards its base -- That Demonstrative Identification (in Evans' sense) rests on, presupposes, Descriptive Identification in his sense and indeed on Sortal Identification.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 316 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Sortals and the subject-predicate distinction.".
• catalog identifier "075461378X".
• catalog isFormatOf "Sortals and the subject-predicate distinction.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Aldershot ; Burlington, USA : Ashgate,".
• catalog relation "Sortals and the subject-predicate distinction.".
• catalog subject "121.68 21".
• catalog subject "BC199.I4 D87 2001".
• catalog subject "Language and logic.".
• catalog subject "Predicate (Logic)".
• catalog subject "Semantics (Philosophy)".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to the Author / Roger Trigg -- Sortals, Names, Descriptions, Predicables, Substantival General Terms, Predicates -- Plan of Campaign -- Sortals, Names and Predicables -- Sortals: a Detailed Investigation -- That Sortals are a Distinct Category of Symbol in that they are not Reducible to Names or Predicables/Predicates -- Considerations on a General Thesis which may arise from the claim that Sortals are not Reducible to Predicables/Predicates -- Sortals and Identification -- The Priority of Sortal Identification over both Naming/Referring and Predication -- Of the Priority of Sortal Identifying over Naming/Referring -- A Case in which Referring may be taken as prior to Identifying -- Consideration of a general attack on my thesis that Sortal Identification is prior to Naming/Referring -- Some general arguments in favour of the thesis that Sortal Identification is prior to Describing or Predicating -- The Contribution of Gareth Evans -- An introduction to Evans: His concept of 'Demonstrative Identification' -- That Sortal Identification is logically prior to Demonstrative Identification -- The Case against Demonstrative Identification (1): the Misconstruction of Demonstrative Sortal Phrases -- The Case against Demonstrative Identification (2): Consideration of a stronger and weaker thesis as regards its base -- That Demonstrative Identification (in Evans' sense) rests on, presupposes, Descriptive Identification in his sense and indeed on Sortal Identification.".
• catalog title "Sortals and the subject-predicate distinction / Michael Durrant ; edited, with a postscript by Stephen Horton.".
• catalog type "text".