Plural Logic

Plural Logic
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 399
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ISBN-10 : 9780198744382
ISBN-13 : 0198744382
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Download or read book Plural Logic written by Alex Oliver and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a new account of plural logic. They argue that there is such a thing as genuinely plural denotation in logic, and expound a framework of ideas that includes the distinction between distributive and collective predicates, the theory of plural descriptions, multivalued functions, and lists.


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