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Fact Proposition Event
Philip L. Peterson
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Hardback. Constitutes the state of the art regarding gerundive entities, defended in meticulous detail. Here, the author's ontology features just facts, proposition, and events, carefully distinguished from each other. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 431 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1730.
`Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguistic industry that began in the 1960s with Vendler's work on nominalization. Natural languages distinguish syntactically and semantically between various sorts of what might be called `gerundive entities' - events, processes, states of affairs, propositions, facts, ... all referred to by sentence nominals of various kinds. Philosophers have worried for millennia over the ontology of such things or `things', but until twenty years ago they ignored all the useful linguistic evidence. Vendler not only began to straighten out the distinctions, but pursued more ... Read more
`Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguistic industry that began in the 1960s with Vendler's work on nominalization. Natural languages distinguish syntactically and semantically between various sorts of what might be called `gerundive entities' - events, processes, states of affairs, propositions, facts, ... all referred to by sentence nominals of various kinds. Philosophers have worried for millennia over the ontology of such things or `things', but until twenty years ago they ignored all the useful linguistic evidence. Vendler not only began to straighten out the distinctions, but pursued more ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
431
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792345688
SKU
V9780792345688
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