Handbook of Philosophical Logic Volume IV: Topics in the Philosophy
conceptual, realist) theories of predication. Chapter IV.4 centers on an important class of expressions used for predication in connection with quantities: mass expressions. This chapter reviews the most well-known approaches to mass terms and the ontolog
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STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC Volume IV: Topics in the Philosophy of Language Edited by D. GABBAY Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, England
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CONTENTS TO VOLUME IV
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Vll
PREFACE
IX
A NOTE ON NOTATION
XI
IV.I
DAG WESTERSTAHL
I Quantifiers in Formal and
Natural Languages IV.2
GEORGE BEALER
and UWE MONNICH I Property
Theories IV.3 IV.4 IV.5 IV.6 IV.7 IV.S IV.9 IV.IO
I Philosophical Perspectives on Formal Theories of Predication FRANCIS JEFFRY PELLETIER and LENHART K. SCHUBERT I Mass Expressions NATHAN SALMON I Reference and Information Content: Names and Descriptions GRAEME FORBES I Indexicals RAINER BAUERLE and MAX 1. CRESSWELL Propositional Attitudes STEVEN T. KUHN! Tense and Time SCOTT SOAMES I Presupposition ALBERT VISSER I Semantics and the Liar Paradox
133
NINO B. COCCHIARELLA
253 327 409 463 491 513 553 617
NAME INDEX
707
SUBJECT INDEX
712
TABLE OF CONTENTS TO VOLUMES I, II, AND III
719
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The preparation of the Handbook of Philosophical Logic was generously supported by the Lady Davis Fund at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel and the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg, West Germany, which provided us with the chance of discussing the chapters in
