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The Logicality of Second-Order Logic
No full textThis chapter argues against predicative analyses of plurality, which force plurals into the familiar mould of singular logic by turning an apparently plural term standing for several objects into a singular predicate standing for a concept or property. Michael Dummett enlists support from Fregean semantics in favour of a predicative analysis, but his arguments do not stand up, either as exegesis of Frege or on their own merits. As well as facing difficulties in eliminating plural content, predicative analyses are sunk by the equivocity objection: they misrepresent single English predicates as equivocal, by treating the predicate differently according as it combines with singular or plural arguments. Although George Boolos does not offer a predicative analysis, it is argued that his second-order treatment of plurals is also sunk by the equivocity objection. And Ian Rumfitt fails in his attempt to avoid the objection by modifying Boolos's scheme
Double atelier international
No full textOrganisateurs Wioletta Miskiewicz CNRS/ Archives e-LV & Friederike Moltmann CNRS/ Nominal ATELIER du 24 janvier 2014 Théorie des Actions et des Produits de Kazimierz Twardowski Langues: anglais, français, allemand, polonais Participants: Jens Cavallin (Stockholm) Mind, Product and Being. Twardowski on Formal Ontology Jacques Dubucs Twardowski on Sharing Meaning Wioletta Miskiewicz Genesis of the Actions and Products Theory Friederike Moltmann The Distinction between Actions and Products as an..
Modal Meinongianism and Fiction : the Best of Three Worlds
Get PDFThanks to Friederike Moltmann, Robert Stalnaker, Shahid Rahman, Alberto Voltolini, Benoît Conti, and an anonymous referee, for comments and helpful suggestions on various versions of this paper.Peer reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Intensional Relative Clauses and the Notion of a Variable Object
No full textThe puzzle Apparent trope-referring terms with intensional relative clauses (1) a. The number of people that fit into the bus exceeds the number of people that fit into the car. b. The impact of the book John needs to write must be greater than the impact of the book he has already written
Natural Language Ontology (SEP entry)
No full textThis is my entry on natural language ontology in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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