Author: P.L. Peterson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401589593
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
`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 or `things', but until twenty years ago they ignored all the useful linguistic evidence. Vendler not only began to straighten out the distinctions, but pursued more specific and more interesting questions such as that of what entities the causality relation relates (events? facts?). And that of the objects of knowledge and belief. But Vendler's work was only a start and Peterson has continued the task from then until now, both philosophically and linguistically. Fact Proposition Event constitutes the state of the art regarding gerundive entities, defended in meticulous detail. Peterson's ontology features just facts, proposition, and events, carefully distinguished from each other. Among his more specific achievements are: a nice treatment of the linguist's distinction between `factive' and nonfactive constructions; a detailed theory of the subjects and objects of causation, which impinges nicely on action theory; an interesting argument that fact, proposition, events are innate ideas in humans; a theory of complex events (with implications for law and philosophy of law); and an overall picture of syntax and semantics of causal sentences and action sentences. Though Peterson does not pursue them here, there are clear and significant implications for the philosophy of science, in particular for our understanding of scientific causation, causal explanation and law likeness.' Professor William Lycan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fact Proposition Event
Author: P.L. Peterson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401589593
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
`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 or `things', but until twenty years ago they ignored all the useful linguistic evidence. Vendler not only began to straighten out the distinctions, but pursued more specific and more interesting questions such as that of what entities the causality relation relates (events? facts?). And that of the objects of knowledge and belief. But Vendler's work was only a start and Peterson has continued the task from then until now, both philosophically and linguistically. Fact Proposition Event constitutes the state of the art regarding gerundive entities, defended in meticulous detail. Peterson's ontology features just facts, proposition, and events, carefully distinguished from each other. Among his more specific achievements are: a nice treatment of the linguist's distinction between `factive' and nonfactive constructions; a detailed theory of the subjects and objects of causation, which impinges nicely on action theory; an interesting argument that fact, proposition, events are innate ideas in humans; a theory of complex events (with implications for law and philosophy of law); and an overall picture of syntax and semantics of causal sentences and action sentences. Though Peterson does not pursue them here, there are clear and significant implications for the philosophy of science, in particular for our understanding of scientific causation, causal explanation and law likeness.' Professor William Lycan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401589593
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
`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 or `things', but until twenty years ago they ignored all the useful linguistic evidence. Vendler not only began to straighten out the distinctions, but pursued more specific and more interesting questions such as that of what entities the causality relation relates (events? facts?). And that of the objects of knowledge and belief. But Vendler's work was only a start and Peterson has continued the task from then until now, both philosophically and linguistically. Fact Proposition Event constitutes the state of the art regarding gerundive entities, defended in meticulous detail. Peterson's ontology features just facts, proposition, and events, carefully distinguished from each other. Among his more specific achievements are: a nice treatment of the linguist's distinction between `factive' and nonfactive constructions; a detailed theory of the subjects and objects of causation, which impinges nicely on action theory; an interesting argument that fact, proposition, events are innate ideas in humans; a theory of complex events (with implications for law and philosophy of law); and an overall picture of syntax and semantics of causal sentences and action sentences. Though Peterson does not pursue them here, there are clear and significant implications for the philosophy of science, in particular for our understanding of scientific causation, causal explanation and law likeness.' Professor William Lycan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The laws of thought
Author: George Boole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Laws of Thought (1854)
Author: George Boole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
University of California Publications in Philosophy
Author: University of California (1868-1952)
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Analytic Philosophy & Logic
Author: Akihiro Kanamori
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889680101
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889680101
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Logic
Author: Christoph Sigwart
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ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Logic: The judgement, concept and inference
Author: Christoph Sigwart
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Supplementary Volume
Author: Aristotelian Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Language
Author: George Melville Bolling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy
Author: Aristotelian Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
List of members in each volume.