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Metaphysics, mathematics, and meaning / Nathan Salmon

Author
Salmon, Nathan U., 1951-
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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1 online resource (xiv, 419 pages).
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Oxford University Press
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Contents
Part I. Ontology -- Existence (1987) -- Nonexistence (1998) -- Mythical objects (2002) -- Part II. Necessity -- modal logic Kalish-and-Montague style (1994u) -- Impossible Worlds (1984) -- An empire of thin air (1988) -- The logic of what might have been (1989) -- Part III. Identity -- The fact that X=Y (1987) -- This side of paradox (1993) -- Identity facts (2002) -- Personal identity : what's the problem? (1995u) -- Part IV. Philosophy of mathematics -- Wholes, parts, and numbers (1997) -- The limits of human mathematics (2001) -- Part V. Theory of meaning and reference -- On content (1992) -- On designating (1997u) -- A problem in the Frege-Church theory of sense and denotation (1993) -- The very possibility of language (2001) -- Tense and intension (2003) -- Pronouns as variables (2005).
Summary
'Metaphysics, Mathematics and Meaning' brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence and fiction. He includes a previously unpublished essay and helpful new introduction to orient the reader.
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9781435631496 (electronic bk.)
1435631498 (electronic bk.)
9780191535949
019153594X
9780191603235
0191603236
0199284717
9780199284719
0199281769 (hbk.)
9780199281763
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-409) and index.
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