Plural Logic: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged

Synopsis

Alex Oliver And Timothy Smiley Provide An Account Of Plural Logic. They Argue That There Is Such A Thing As Genuinely Plural Denotation In Logic, And Expound A Framework Of Ideas That Includes The Distinction Between Distributive And Collective Predicates, The Theory Of Plural Descriptions, Multivalued Functions, And Lists. The Project -- History -- Changing The Subject -- Predicative Analyses -- Terms--singular And Plural -- The Indeterminacy Of Plural Denotation -- Some Basic Ideas Of Plural Logic -- Plural Descriptions -- Multivalued Functions -- Lists -- Singular Logic -- Mid-plural Logic -- Full Plural Logic -- Cantorian Set Theory -- Postscript : Unfinished Business. Alex Oliver And Timothy Smiley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [301]-312) And Index.