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Are there infinitely many sorts of things?
Philosophia 8 (1):17-30 (1978)
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An argument is given for Fred Sommers's thesis that the number of sorts of things, that is, the number of types or categories, discriminated by any natural language is always infinite.Author's Profile
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Predicability.Fred Sommers - 1964 - In Max Black (ed.), Philosophy in America. Ithaca: Routledge. pp. 262--281.
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