Denoting Concepts, Reference, and The Logic of Names, Classes as Many, Groups, and Plurals?*.
BertrandRussellintroducedseveralnovelideasinhis1903PrinciplesofMathematicsthathelatergaveupandneverwentbacktoinhissubsequentwork.Twoofthesearetherelatednotionsofdenotingconceptsandclassesasmany.Inthispaperwereconstructeachofthesenotionsintheframeworkofconceptualrealismandconnectthemthroughalogicofna...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 135 - 180 |
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