1st Edition
Intermediate Quantities Logic, Linguistics and Aristotelian Semantics
By Philip Peterson
Copyright 2017
294 Pages
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Routledge
This title was first published in 2000: Intermediate quantifiers express logical quantities which fall between Aristotle's two quantities of categorical propositions - universal and particular. "Few", "many" and "most" express the most commonly referred to intermediate quantifiers, but this book argues that an infinite number can be understood through a deeper examination of the logical... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- 1 “Few”, “Many”, and “Most” -- 2 The Compleat Syllogistic: Including Rules and Venn Diagrams for Five Quantities (with Robert Carnes) -- 3 The Grammar of Some English Quantifiers -- 4 Complexly Fractionated Quantifiers -- 5 Distribution and Proportion -- 6 Reasonings About Relations Bibliography -- Index.
Biography
Professor of Philosophy. Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University New York, USA.
