TY - BOOK ID - 77929125 TI - Sorting the World PY - 2013 VL - v. 4 SN - 3110323583 9783110323580 3868381139 9783868381139 3110323036 9783110323030 9783868381139 9783110323030 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Intension (Philosophy) KW - Logical semantics KW - Semantics (Logic) KW - Semeiotics KW - Significs KW - Syntactics KW - Unified science KW - Language and languages KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Logical positivism KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Semiotics KW - Signs and symbols KW - Symbolism KW - Analysis (Philosophy) KW - Definition (Philosophy) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77929125 AB - The basic hypothesis of this book is that linguistic reference to kinds should be seen as reference to sortal concepts, i.e. cognitive categories for identifying and classifying objects. Viewed that way, kinds serve as the interface between the conceptual system and the grammatical system. Kind-level predicates differ as to whether they presuppose (e.g. to be extinct) or entail (e.g. to invent) the existence of objects, with crucial consequences for the interpretation of indefinite argument noun phrases. Moreover, object reference always involves underlying kind reference, but kind reference does not always involve object reference. This asymmetry, once recognized, proves useful in solving otherwise puzzling problems in semantic composition. ER -