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Philosophia Mathematica Advance Access originally published online on September 19, 2007
Philosophia Mathematica 2008 16(1):133-140; doi:10.1093/philmat/nkm033
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Copyright © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press.

Book Review

THOMAS MCKAY. Plural Predication

John P. Burgess*

* Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1006, U.S.A.

Correspondence: jburgess@princeton.edu

Thomas McKay. Plural Predication. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. viii + 264. ISBN 0-19-927814-8

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This work, the first book-length study of its topic, is an important contribution to the literature of philosophical logic and philosophy of language, with implications for other branches of philosophy, including philosophy of mathematics. However, five of the book's ten chapters (4 and 7–10), including many of the author's most original contributions, are devoted to issues about natural language, and lie pretty well outside the scope of this journal, not to mention that of the reviewer's competence. For this reason I will here largely confine my attention to the other half of the book, and so will be far from doing full justice to the book as a whole; indeed, there is such a wealth of detail in the book that I will be unable to do full justice even to the five chapters selected for comment.

Non-distributive predicates.To begin with some points that have often been remarked, formulas . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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