ABOUT THE BOOK

Quantification is inevitably part of our representation of thought and, generally, part of our understanding of what thought is. If our understanding of what quantification is is wrong, so is our understanding of thought.

The task of the present volume, which seems quite indispensable for arriving, if at all, at significant theoretical generalizations about quantifiers as a whole, is to elucidate the relation between quantifiers in the formal languages of logic and quantifiers as actual items found in natural language, and, in effect, to demystify the allegedly exclusive role of the existing theoretical apparatus of contemporary logic in providing ultimately all foundational theoretical explanations concerning quantification in natural language, and idiomatic quantifiers in ordinary English in particular.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aleksy Molczanow holds a habilitation degree from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland and is currently associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rzeszow, Poland. He is the author of "Quantification and Inference," The Monist, 2002, Vol. 85, No. 4.

Logical Aspects of Quantification in Natural Language ISBN-10: 1-58832-105-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-58832-105-3 Retail: $13.99 U.S. Edition: First Specs: 6 x 9 Trade Paperback Length: 196 Released: June 2004 Subject(s): Language