sortals

There are acceptable substitutions for F which would not normally be classified as sortals, but using concepts such as piece, or hunk or lump of stuff.

Substance Robinson, Howard 2004

The ideas of particular sorts of substance ” called sortals ” are formed by collecting such combinations of simple ideas, as are by experience and observation of men's senses, taken notice of to exist together, and are therefore supposed to flow from the particular internal constitution, or unknown essence of that substance.

Substance Robinson, Howard 2004

And, Unger pointed out, this includes most sortals.

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

Finally, Lewis says that each of the constituters is so like the object it is meant to merely constitute (be it a cloud, or a cat, or whatever), it satisfies the same sortals as that object.

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

Many reject the idea that being able to sort objects is sufficient for having a concept corresponding to the sortals.

Animal Cognition Andrews, Kristin 2008

If any of the claims discussed above about sortals are correct, then the sortal predicates have more properties than do arbitrarily chosen predicates and a more sophisticated logical treatment might provide philosophical illumination.

Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

Thus on Wiggins 'account some, but not all conjunctions of sortals are sortals.

Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

Substance sortals are contrasted with phase sortals; the latter only apply to some temporal segment of the existence of an object, e.g., kitten or tadpole.

Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

He disagrees with Wiggins on both of the principles (i) and (ii) above, arguing that while they may be true for natural kind terms, there are no reasons to believe that there are ultimate sortals of which various artifact sortals are restrictions, nor that every intersection of sortals must fall under an ultimate sortal.

Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007

In the cases of non-mathematical abstract sortals, the grammatical trappings of sortals are present but individuation and counting criteria seem unclear.

Sortals Grandy, Richard E. 2007