Words without Objects
Subtitle: Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 8, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780199281718
First sentence: Engaging in the business of reflective, abstract thought, we nevertheless find ourselves initially most at home in contemplating the category of individual concrete bodiesindividual chairs, tables, dogs, cats, snow-flakes, ice cubes, jugs, flowers, trees, houses, stars, planets, bacteria, molecules, and so onall seemingly distinguishable, discrete units, each countable as one, each one retaining its unique identity, possessing some cohesive causal unity, persisting for some finite period of time, surviving certain kinds of change but not other kinds of change, interacting causally with other discrete units in a common space and time.