书目名称 | Fact Proposition Event | 编辑 | Philip L. Peterson | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | `Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguisticindustry that began in the 1960s with Vendler‘s work onnominalization. Natural languages distinguish syntactically andsemantically between various sorts of what might be called `gerundiveentities‘ - 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 suchthings or `things‘, but until twenty years ago they ignored all theuseful linguistic evidence. Vendler not only began to straighten outthe distinctions, but pursued more specific and more interestingquestions such as that of what entities the causality relation relates(events? facts?). And that of the objects of knowledge and belief. ButVendler‘s work was only a start and Peterson has continued the taskfrom then until now, both philosophically and linguistically. .FactProposition Event. constitutes the state of the art regardinggerundive entities, defended in meticulous detail. .Peterson‘s ontology features just facts, proposition, and events,carefully distinguished from each other. Among his more specificachievements are: a nice treatment of the ling | 出版日期 | Book 1997 | 关键词 | Syntax; knowledge; natural language; ontology; philosophy; philosophy of language; semantic; semantics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8959-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-4856-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-015-8959-8Series ISSN 0924-4662 Series E-ISSN 2215-034X | issn_series | 0924-4662 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997 |
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