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Group nouns and pseudo‐singularity
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2021-02-10 , DOI: 10.1002/tht3.476
Eric Snyder 1 , Stewart Shapiro 2
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Definite group nouns, such as “the deck of cards,” raise two important kinds of problems. Philosophically, they raise the ancient Problem of the Many: How can one deck be many cards? Linguistically, they threaten paradox: If such expressions singularly refer to groups as set‐like entities, then analyses employing such entities threaten to be incoherent, due to Russell's paradox. On the other hand, no paradox is threatened if, per the suggestion of Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley, “the deck of cards” is a pseudo‐singular term, that is, a term which is syntactically singular but semantically plural, exploiting the primitive relation of plural reference. Against this, we argue that pseudo‐singularity is linguistically and logically untenable. As such, it will not plausibly solve either kind of problem raised by definite group nouns.

中文翻译:

组名词和伪奇异性

诸如“纸牌甲板”之类的确定组名词提出了两种重要的问题。从哲学上讲,它们提出了古老的“许多问题”:一个卡座怎么可能有许多张牌?从语言上讲,它们威胁着悖论:如果这样的表述将组单独称为集合状实体,则由于罗素的悖论,使用这样的实体进行分析可能会导致不连贯。另一方面,如果根据Alex Oliver和Timothy Smiley的建议,“纸牌组”是一个伪单数术语,即该术语在语法上是单数但在语义上是复数的,那么就没有任何悖论受到威胁。复数关系。与此相反,我们认为伪奇异性在语言和逻辑上是站不住脚的。因此,它不可能合理地解决定组名词所引起的任何一种问题。
更新日期:2021-03-03
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