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In [2], Richard E. Grandy proposes that the distinction between mass and sortal terms be understood as a difference in levels of predicates. Mass terms — like ‘gold’ and ‘water’ — are first-level predicates; sortal terms — like ‘ring’ and ‘statue’ — are second-level predicates. A natural language with terms of both sorts is to be regarded as a kind of second-order language, with quantifiers appearing at (at least) two levels.
The present paper revises one I read as a reply to an earlier version of Richard E. Grandy’s ‘Stuff and Things’ at the seventieth annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, in Atlanta, 27 December 1973. I thank Duane T. Williams for helpful criticism of this and my previous efforts.
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Cartwright, Helen Morris, `Quantities’, The Philosophical Review 79 (1970), 25–42.
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Chellas, B.F. (1975). Quantity and Quantification. In: Pelletier, F.J. (eds) Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems. Synthese Language Library, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4110-5_16
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