plural logic von oliver alex (3 Ergebnisse)

24 x 16 cm. Zustand: Gut. 336 Seiten Innen sehr sauberer, guter Zustand. Leineneinband, mit den üblichen Bibliotheks-Markierungen, Stempeln und Einträgen, innen wie außen, siehe Bilder. B06-03-03A||A85 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 680 2., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage,.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 2nd revised enl edition. 383 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: as new. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 2013. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 352 pp. - Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms ('Whitehead and Russell', 'Henry VIII's wives', 'the real numbers', 'the square root of -1', 'they'), plural predicates ('surrounded the fort', 'are prime', 'are consistent', 'imply'), and plural quantification ('some things', 'any things'). Current logic is singularist: its terms stand for at most one thing. By contrast, the foundational thesis of this book is that a particular term may legitimately stand for several things at once; in other words, there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation. The authors argue that plural phenomena need to be taken seriously and that the only viable response is to adopt a plural logic, a logic based on plural denotation. They expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists. A formal system of plural logic is presented in three stages, before being applied to Cantorian set theory as an illustration. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780199570423. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY, logic.