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.
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.
Bernhard Nickel is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His research interests lie in the philosophy of language and linguistics.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction 2: Genericity and Generics I: Semantics 3: The Basic Semantics 4: Other Recent Work 5: Logical Complexity 6: Genericity and Gradability II: Normality 7: A Definition of Normality 8: Linguistics--A Case Study 9: Coda: Onward, Upward, Inward, Outward III: Appendices A: Formal Results and Implementations B: A Detailed Presentation of Free Choice Inferences
1: Introduction 2: Genericity and Generics I: Semantics 3: The Basic Semantics 4: Other Recent Work 5: Logical Complexity 6: Genericity and Gradability II: Normality 7: A Definition of Normality 8: Linguistics--A Case Study 9: Coda: Onward, Upward, Inward, Outward III: Appendices A: Formal Results and Implementations B: A Detailed Presentation of Free Choice Inferences
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