Things, facts and events / / edited by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler, and Max Urchs.

• Superior document: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities ; 76
• TeilnehmendeR: Scheffler, Uwe,; Faye, Jan,; Urchs, Max,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [2001]; ©2001
• Any de publicació: 2001
• Idioma: English
• Col·lecció: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities ; 76.
• Descripció física: 1 online resource (544 pages)

The volume deals with ontological and semantical issues concerning things, facts and events. Ontology tells us about what there is, whereas semantics provides answers to how we refer to what there is. Basic ontological categories are commonly accepted along with basic linguistic types, and linguisti...