Blanchot, paradoxo plural

Blanchot and Ambiguity

In his article "Blanchot and Ambiguity" Paolo Bartoloni investigates the enigmatic and ambiguous turn of the famous Blanchotian statement "existence without Being." The intention of the article is to locate Blanchot's remark in the context of a discussion on history and its possible end, famously initiated by Alexandre Kojève in a lecture on 4 December 1937 at the College of Sociology in Paris;...

Plural Predication

My thesis consists of three self-contained but interconnected papers. In the first one, 'Word and Objects', I assume that it is possible to quantify over absolutely everything, and show that certain English sentences containing collective predicates resist paraphrase in first-order languages and even in first-order languages enriched with plural quantifiers. To capture such sentences I develop ...

Plural Quantification and Classes

A plural resolution logic

This paper presents an integration of centering theory ([GJW95]) into incremental dynamic logic. The formalism is based on an idea found in [vE00a], where contexts are permutable in order to model salience. Building on this idea, centering theory is restated as a formalism on contexts. Subsequently the system is used to consider some problems centering theory has once plurality is taken into ac...

Plural Discourse Reference

The goal of this additional section is to further explore the semantic notion of plurality and argue that, in addition to plural reference to collections, natural language interpretation involves a notion of plural discourse reference that is essential for the interpretation of quantificationally dependent pronouns (and anaphoric expressions in general, e.g., definites, partitives, reciprocals ...