Fact Proposition Event

by P.L. Peterson and Philip L. Peterson

Book Overview

Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguistic industry that began in the 1960s with Vendler's work on nominalization. Natural languages distinguish syntactically and semantically between various sorts of what might be called gerundive entities' - events, processes, states of affairs, propositions, facts, ... all referred to by sentence nominals of various kinds. Philosophers have worried for millennia over the ontology of such things...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048148561
• ISBN13: 9789048148561
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"