Handbook of Philosophical Logic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Quantifiers in Formal and Natural Languages

   • Dag Westerståhl

   Pages 1-131

3. Property Theories

   • George Bealer, Uwe Mönnich

   Pages 133-251

4. Philosophical Perspectives on Formal Theories of Predication

   • Nino B. Cocchiarella

   Pages 253-326

5. Mass Expressions

   • Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Lenhart K. Schubert

   Pages 327-407

6. Reference and Information Content: Names and Descriptions

   • Nathan Salmon

   Pages 409-461

7. Indexicals

   • Graeme Forbes

   Pages 463-490

8. Propositional Attitudes

   • Rainer Bäuerle, M. J. Cresswell

   Pages 491-512

9. Tense and Time

   • Steven T. Kuhn

   Pages 513-552

10. Presupposition

    • Scott Soames

    Pages 553-616

11. Semantics and the Liar Paradox

    • Albert Visser

    Pages 617-706

12. Back Matter

    Pages 707-721

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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 ontological proposals related to them. In addition to quantification and predication, matters of reference have constituted the other overriding theme for semantic theories in both philosophical logic and the semantics of natural languages. Chapter IV.5 of how the semantics of proper names and descrip­ presents an overview tions have been dealt with in recent theories of reference. Chapter IV.6 is concerned with the context-dependence of reference, in particular, with the semantics of indexical expressions. The topic of Chapter IV.7 is related to predication as it surveys some of the central problems of ascribing propositional attitudes to agents. Chap­ ter IV.8 deals with the analysis of the main temporal aspects of natural language utterances. Together these two chapters give a good indication of the intricate complexities that arise once modalities of one or the other sort enter on the semantic stage. in philosophical Chapter IV.9 deals with another well-known topic logic: presupposition, an issue on the borderline of semantics and prag­ matics. The volume closes with an extensive study of the Liar paradox and its many implications for the study of language (as for example, self­ reference, truth concepts and truth definitions).

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`This volume is a very important one as it covers many interesting topics ... and must be considered central to the field of semantics. ... The different chapters each elucidate their respective topic and with the historical overviews the reader gets the entire development in each subarea up to 1985.'
Studia Linguistica, 44 (2) 1990

• Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, England

  D. Gabbay

• SNS, University of Tübingen, West Germany

  F. Guenthner

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