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Additional Physical Format: | Versión impresa Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language. Oxford Univ Pr 2013 (OCoLC)800035311 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Friederike Moltmann |
ISBN: | 9780199608744 0199608741 9780191649950 0191649953 |
OCLC Number: | 883150970 |
Description: | 1 recurso en línea (x, 244 páginas) |
Details: | Modo de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Contents: | Introduction ; 1. Reference to Universals ; 2. Reference to Tropes and the Ontology of Tropes ; 3. The Semantics of Special Quantifiers in Predicate Position ; 4. Propositions and Attitudinal Objects ; 5. Intensional Transitive Verbs and their Objects ; 6. Reifying Terms ; Conclusion ; References ; Bibliography ; Index |
Responsibility: | Friederike Moltmann. |
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In Moltmanns work, linguistic, metaphysical and more general philosophical insight and theory are expertly woven together in an exceptionally original and rewarding way. This book is essential reading for philosophers, linguists and cognitive scientists. * Mark Sainsbury, University of Texas at Austin * This book is important for its hypotheses and conclusions, but even more so for its methodology: Moltmanns thorough and careful examination of linguistic (and crosslinguistic) data has raised so-called descriptive metaphysics, the analysis of the categories of being implicitly recognized by ordinary language and commonsense thought, to a new level. * John P Burgess, Princeton University * The book is highly recommended to philosophers and linguists alike. Those interested in semantics, ontology, or descriptive metaphysics would benefit greatly from studying it. * Byeong-uk Yi, Mind * Read more...

