The Logic of Sortals A Conceptualist Approach /

• Main Author: Freund, Max A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 408
• Subjects: Logic.; Semantics.; Metaphysics.; Ontology.; Language and languages-Philosophy.; Developmental psychology.; Philosophy of Language.; Developmental Psychology.

Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy. Apart from logic and philosophy, the study of sortal concepts has found its place in specific fields of psychology, such as the theory of infant cogn...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Sortal predicates, identity and quanti.cation
• Chapter 2. An Extensional Logic for Sortals
• Chapter 3. A temporal logic for sortals
• Chapter 4. Natural necessity and the logic of sortals
• Chapter 5. Epistemic sortal logic
• Chapter 6. Predication sortalism
• Chapter 7. Complex sortal predicates
• Chapter 8. Final considerations.