1st Edition

Intermediate Quantities Logic, Linguistics and Aristotelian Semantics

By Philip Peterson Copyright 2000
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by 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

Peterson, Philip