Sorts, ontology, and metaphor: the semantics of sortal structure

New York: W. de Gruyter (1981)
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Sortally incorrect sentences have traditionally been referred to as "category mistakes" (Ryle ()) or "type crossings" (Drange ()). Sortal incorrectness is a ...

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P325.L297 1981

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3110083094

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10.1515/9783110837254
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Preface

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Syntactic Theories

Chapter 2: Linguistic Semantics

Chapter 3: Philosophical Theories

Chapter 4: Significance Logics: The Goddard-Routley Program

Chapter 5: Formal Semantics

Chapter 6: A Criterion of Sortal Incorrectness

Chapter 7: Sortal Incorrectness, Ontological Categories, and Semantic Well-Formedness

Chapter 8: Sortal Incorrectness and Metaphor

Appendix A: A Theory of Sortal Incorrectness

Appendix Β: Extensions of the Theory

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