The Logic and Meaning of Plurals. Part II
The Logic and Meaning of Plurals. Part II
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复数的逻辑和含义。
DOI:
10.1007/s10992-005-9015-6
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
Byeong
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作者:
Byeong
In this sequel to “The logic and meaning of plurals. Part I”, I continue to present an account of logic and language that acknowledges limitations of singular constructions of natural languages and recognizes plural constructions as their peers. To this end, I present a non-reductive account of plural constructions that results from the conception of plurals as devices for talking about the many. In this paper, I give an informal semantics of plurals, formulate a formal characterization of truth for the regimented languages that results from augmenting elementary languages with refinements of basic plural constructions of natural languages, and account for the logic of plural constructions by characterizing the logic of those regimented languages.