Between logic and the world : an integrated theory of generics /
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 metaph...
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Oxford :
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2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Between Logicand the World: An Integrated Theory of Generics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Two Conceptions of Kinds; 1.2 A First Glance at the Theory; 1.3 Generics and the Viability of Formal Semantics; 1.4 A Note to the Reader; 2: Genericity and Generics; 2.1 Genericity and Generics; 2.2 The Range of Data; 2.2.1 Varieties of Genericity; 2.2.2 Focus on Characterizing Generics; 2.3 Skeptical Worries: Loose Talk; 2.3.1 Loose Talk; 2.4 Semantics; 2.4.1 LF; 2.4.2 The LF of Generics; 2.4.3 Genericity and LF; 2.4.4 Logical Form in the Philosophical Tradition
- 2.4.5 Thompson on the Logical Form of Aristotelian Categoricals2.5 Summary; Part I: Semantics; 3: The Basic Semantics; 3.1 Normality; 3.2 Respects; 3.3 Ways; 3.3.1 Grain; 3.4 Modal Import; 3.5 The Logic of Generics: Kind Percolation; 3.5.1 Not False and Negation; 3.5.2 A Pragmatic Alternative; 3.5.3 Negation; 3.5.4 Black Hair and Paperbacks; 3.6 Summary; 4: Other Recent Work; 4.1 Primitive Projective Propensities (Leslie); 4.1.1 Capacities Revisited; 4.1.2 Negativeness and the Subtlety of Generics; 4.2 Probabilities (Cohen); 4.3 Vagueness and Modality (Greenberg)
- 4.4 Natural-Historical Judgments (Thompson)4.5 Summary; 5: Logical Complexity; 5.1 And; 5.1.1 Distributivity and Collectivity in Non-Generic Plurals; 5.1.2 Extending the Analysis to Generics; 5.1.3 Group-Based Characteristic Properties; 5.2 Not and Homogeneity; 5.3 Or; 5.4 Summary; 6: Genericity and Gradability; 6.1 Good; 6.2 Better; 6.3 Defending the Truth-Conditions; 6.4 Patterns in the Data; 6.5 Cohen and Relative Generics; 6.6 Summary; Part II: Normality; 7: A Definition of Normality; 7.1 Characteristic Properties; 7.1.1 "Present In"; 7.1.2 Coherent Explanatory Strategies
- 7.1.3 Contrast, Grain, and Generality7.2 Mechanisms and the Transition to Normality; 7.2.1 Homogeneity; 7.3 Kind-Derived Groups; 7.4 Raw Materials for Semantic Interactions; 7.5 Summary; 8: Linguistics-A Case Study; 8.1 Three Conceptions of the Subject Matterof Linguistics; 8.1.1 Syntax; 8.1.2 Phonology; 8.1.3 Morphology; 8.1.4 Taking Stock; 8.2 Deference; 8.2.1 Putnam's Model; 8.2.2 Saussure and the primacy of the synchronic; 8.2.3 The Transition to Structuralism; 8.2.4 The Transition to Mentalism; 8.2.5 Continuities in Linguistic Change; 8.3 Summary; 9: Coda: Onward, Upward, Inward, Outward
- Part III: AppendicesAppendix A: Formal Results and Implementations; Appendix B: A Detailed Presentation of Free Choice Inferences; Bibliography; Index