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Abstract objects and the semantics of natural language /

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Friederike Moltmann presents an original approach to philosophical issues to do with abstract objects. She focuses on natural language, and finds that reference to abstract objects such as properties, numbers, and propositions is much more restricted than is generally thought, and she offers a subst...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moltmann, Friederike
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Object (Philosophy)
Semantics (Philosophy)
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Objet (Philosophie)
Sémantique (Philosophie)
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Reference to universals and plural reference to particulars
  • Reference to tropes and the ontology of tropes
  • The semantics of special quantifiers in predicate position
  • Propositions and attitudinal objects
  • Intensional transitive verbs and their 'objects'
  • Reifying terms.