Reference and Generality. An Examination of Some Medieval and Modern Theories.

First edition. 8vo. xx, 202 pp., frontispiece. Original blue-grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered in blue, dust jacket (neat contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; spine panel of jacket just a shade toned, otherwise a near fine copy). Ithaca, New York; Cornell University Press.

'Geach has written influentially in many of the central areas of philosophy, but his most important contribution has been the application of logical techniques to problems of language and metaphysics. Geach was never sympathetic to the linguistic philosophy of the 1950s and 1960s, and References and Generality (1962) used the techniques of formal logic to understand how referring expressions, and expressions of generality, are used in everyday language and thought. Its most influential view was perhaps the claim that identity claims are meaningless except as relative to some general term' (Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, p. 269).

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