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The Semantics of Mass‐Predicates
Author(s) -
Koslicki Kathrin
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/0029-4624.00142
Subject(s) - semantics (computer science) , computer science , citation , information retrieval , world wide web , programming language
‘gold’, ‘trash’, ‘gravel’, ‘clothing’, ‘furniture’, ‘music’, and ‘information’. 1 Some standardly have only count-occurrences, e.g. ‘thunderstorm’, ‘river’, ‘person’, ‘circle’, ‘molecule’, ‘word’, ‘line’, and ‘definition’. Others standardly have both kinds of occurrences, e.g. ‘hair’, ‘chicken’, ‘carrot’, ‘apple’, ‘proof’ and ‘truth’. In each group, there are some nouns which denote concrete things ~e.g. ‘snow’, ‘river’, ‘chicken’ ! and some which denote abstract entities ~e.g. ‘information’, ‘line’, ‘proof’ !. 2