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3493445Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problemshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/mass-terms-some-philosophical-problems-9781402041105/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2790966/699ce5f6-2d37-4805-b800-324e4cf0065a.jpg?v=63838445680250000032723636MXNSpringer NetherlandsInStock/Ebooks/<p>I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. Water, smoke, gold, etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as man, star, wastebasket, etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases much, an amount of, a little, etc. The typical indefinite article for them is some (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers each, every, some, few, many; and they use a(n) as the indefinite article. They can, unlike the mass terms, take numerals as prefixes. Mass terms seem not to have a plural. Semantically, philo sophers have characterized count terms as denoting (classes of?) indi vidual objects, whereas what mass terms denote are cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual objects, or when they wish to reidentify a particular already introduced into discoursc. Given a "space appropriate" to a count term C, it makes sense to ask how many Cs there are in that space.</p>...3429288Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems32723636https://www.gandhi.com.mx/mass-terms-some-philosophical-problems-9781402041105/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2790966/699ce5f6-2d37-4805-b800-324e4cf0065a.jpg?v=638384456802500000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20079781402041105_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_<p>I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. Water, smoke, gold, etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as man, star, wastebasket, etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases much, an amount of, a little, etc. The typical indefinite article for them is some (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers each, every, some, few, many; and they use a(n) as the indefinite article. They can, unlike the mass terms, take numerals as prefixes. Mass terms seem not to have a plural. Semantically, philo sophers have characterized count terms as denoting (classes of?) indi vidual objects, whereas what mass terms denote are cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual objects, or when they wish to reidentify a particular already introduced into discoursc. Given a space appropriate to a count term C, it makes sense to ask how many Cs there are in that space.</p>(*_*)9781402041105_<p>I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. Water, smoke, gold, etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as man, star, wastebasket, etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases much, an amount of, a little, etc. The typical indefinite article for them is some (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers each, every, some, few, many; and they use a(n) as the indefinite article. They can, unlike the mass terms, take numerals as prefixes. Mass terms seem not to have a plural. Semantically, philo sophers have characterized count terms as denoting (classes of?) indi vidual objects, whereas what mass terms denote are cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual objects, or when they wish to reidentify a particular already introduced into discoursc. Given a "space appropriate" to a count term C, it makes sense to ask how many Cs there are in that space.</p>...9781402041105_Springer Netherlandslibro_electonico_0c33c76b-449d-3f36-b136-199a5da2c4e1_9781402041105;9781402041105_9781402041105InglésMéxico2007-11-08T00:00:00+00:00Springer Netherlands