Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
College of Humanities |
Department |
Philosophy |
Creator |
Hanna, Patricia Lee |
Title |
Summaries and comments on Lappin, S. Sorts, ontology and metaphor: the semantics of sortal structure |
Date |
1983 |
Description |
In this interesting study, Shalom Lappin argues that any adequate theory of sortal incorrectness must meet four requirements. First, it must account for the truth valuelessness of sortally incorrect sentences. Second, it must provide a means of distinguishing truth valuelessness arising from sortal incorrectness from other sources of truth valuelessness. Third, it must be able to capture inferences which depend on sortal factors, while preserving those implications and formulae of classical logic which are unaffected by sortal factors. And fourth, it must supply an account of a significant but often overlooked class of sortally incorrect sentences, viz., those whose sortal incorrectness is introduced via adverbial phrases. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
Catholic University of America Press |
Volume |
36 |
Issue |
3 |
First Page |
719 |
Last Page |
720 |
Subject |
Valuelessness; Incorrectness |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Hanna, P. L. (1983). Summaries and comments on Lappin, S. Sorts, ontology and metaphor : the semantics of sortal structure. Review of Metaphysics, 36(3), 719-20. March. |
Rights Management |
(c) Catholic University of America Press |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
807,578 |
Identifier |
ir-main,6275 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6v12nxb |
Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
702673 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v12nxb |