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Words without Objects by Henry Laycock, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Henry Laycock

Current price: $82.95
Words without Objects by Henry Laycock, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Words without Objects by Henry Laycock, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Words without Objects by Henry Laycock, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Henry Laycock

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A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is however one of two main targets of Henry Laycock's book; for it is seriously incomplete. The picture, he argues, leaves no space for stuff like air and water. Withdiscrete objects, we may always ask 'how many?', but with stuff the question has to be 'how much?' Within philosophy, stuff of certain basic kinds is central to the ancient pre-Socratic world-view; but it also constitutes the field of modern chemistry and is a major factor in ecology. Philosophers these days, in general, are unlikely to deny that stuff exists. But they are very likely to deny that it is ('ultimately') to be contrasted with things, and it is on this account that logic and semantics figure largely in the framework of the book. Elementary logic is a logic whichtakes values for its variables; and these values are precisely distinct individuals or things. Existence is then symbolized in just such terms; and this, it is proposed, creates a pressure for 'reducing' stuff to things. Non-singular expressions, which include words for stuff, 'mass' nouns, and alsoplural nouns, are 'explicated' as semantically singular. Here then is the second target of the book. The posit that both mass and plural nouns name special categories of objects (set-theoretical 'collections' of objects in the one case, mereological 'parcels' or 'portions' of stuff in the other) represents, so Laycock urges, the imposition of an alienlogic upon both the many and the much. | Words without Objects by Henry Laycock, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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