Titlebook: Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems; Francis Jeffry Pelletier Book 1979 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1979 Ontologie.langu

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Book 1979cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual objects, or when they wish to reident

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0924-4662 anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual objects, or when they wish to reident978-1-4020-3265-3978-1-4020-4110-5Series ISSN 0924-4662 Series E-ISSN 2215-034X

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The Proper Treatment of Mass Terms in English,The basic problem is to determine what concrete mass nouns denote and how one is to give truth conditions for sentences containing them. I ignore for the most part ‘abstract mass nouns’ and ‘mass adjectives’, but see below.

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Ensembles and the Formal Semantic Properties of Mass Terms,The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the formal semantic properties of mass terns. What is meant by formal semantic properties will be explained in section 2; in the present section a characterization in syntactic terms is given of the phenomena that go by the name of mass terms.

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Predication and Matter,This paper is divided into four sections. First, I will pose what may be called the metaphysical problem of matter. Then, 1 will describe a related problem: the logico-linguistic problem of mass terms. Third, I will outline the standard solutions to these problems. Fourth, I will suggest a new solution.

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978-1-4020-3265-3Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1979

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Afterthoughts on Mass Terms,esented, as well as various alternative theories. I have little to say about many of the issues that have been raised (e.g., ‘how’ mass terms ‘divide their reference’), but I will here comment briefly on four issues that are particularly relevant to the theory proposed in MT & AT.