Descriptive Metaphysics, Natural Language Metaphysics, Sapir-Whorf, and All That Stuff: Evidence from the Mass-Count Distinction
<p>Strawson (1959) described ‘descriptive metaphysics’, Bach (1986a) described ‘natural language metaphysics’, Sapir (1929) and Whorf (1940a,b, 1941) describe, well, Sapir-Whorfianism. And there are other views concerning the relation between correct semantic analysis of linguistic phenomena an...
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| Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
2010-12-01
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| Series: | The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1570 |