Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-312) and index
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
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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