Plural Logic

by Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley

Book Overview

Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms ('Whitehead and Russell', 'Henry VIII's wives', 'the real numbers', 'the square root of -1', 'they'), plural predicates ('surrounded the fort', 'are prime', 'are consistent', 'imply'), and plural quantification ('some things', 'any things'). Current logic is singularist: its terms stand for at most one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198744382
• ISBN13: 9780198744382
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"