Between Logic and the World

Between Logic and the World
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780199640003
ISBN-13 : 0199640009
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Book Synopsis Between Logic and the World by : Bernhard Nickel

Download or read book Between Logic and the World written by Bernhard Nickel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our everyday thought and talk, we put things into categories in order to generalize about them: 'Lions have manes', 'Ravens are black'. Bernhard Nickel presents a theory of generic sentences and the modes of thought they express, integrating compositional semantics with metaphysics to solve the problems of what they mean and how they work.


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