Forms of thought : a study in philosophical logic /
Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and conditiona...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Individuation, reference, and sortal terms
- Two styles of predication, dispositional and occurrent
- Ontological categories and categorial predication
- What is a criterion of identity?
- Identity conditions and their grounds
- Identity, vagueness, and modality
- Necessity, essence, and possible worlds
- The truth about counterfactuals
- Conditionals and conditional probability.


