States versus tropes. Comments on Curt Anderson and Marcin Morzycki: ‘Degrees as kinds-

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• 作者：Friederike Moltmann
• 关键词：State ; Trope ; Degree ; Kind ; Davidsonian state ; Kimian state
• 刊名：Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：33
• 期：3
• 页码：829-841
• 全文大小：816 KB
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• 作者单位：Friederike Moltmann (1)
  
  1. IHPST, ENS, CNRS, Paris 1, France
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Linguistics
  Linguistics
  Philosophy of Language
  Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0859

文摘

In this commentary on Anderson and Morzycki’s article ‘Degrees as kinds- I raise some issues about the interchangeability of concrete (or Davidsonian) states (in the sense of Maienborn 2007) and tropes (particularized properties, according to Moltmann 2009), as well as the category of concrete states as such. I will also raise some issues for Anderson and Morzycki’s use of kinds of concrete states for constructing degrees and their analysis of the comparative.