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Sortals and the Subject-predicate Distinction (2001)
332 Pages
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Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
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Routledge
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This title was first published in 2001. The problem of the subject-predicate distinction has featured centrally in much of modern philosophy of language and philosophical logic, and the distinction is taken as basic or fundamental in modern philosophical logic. Michael Durrant seeks to demonstrate that the distinction should not be taken as basic or fundamental and argues that the reason for it... Read more
Introduction: Aims and Plan of Campaign; I: Sortals, Names and Predicables; II: Sortals and Indentification; III: Sortals and the Subject-Predicate Distinction; IV: General Consequences of the Failure to Acknowledge the Category of the Sortal; V: Frege: Sortals as ‘Concepts’; VI: Russell: Sortals as ‘Descriptions’; VII: Geach: Sortals, Substantival General Terms and General Names; VIII: Strawson: Sortals - Failure to Recognise Their True Nature; His Dual Position; IX: Strawson: Sortals and Sortal Instantiation; X: Strawson: Further Consequences of Failure to Recognise the Nature of the Sortal; XI: Quine: Sortals and Canonical Notation; Conclusion; Postscript
Biography
Michael Durrant
