The Genealogy of Disjunction Book

1	Introduction	3
1.1	Preliminaries	3
1.2	Introduction to 'Or'	20
2	What Does Disjunction do?	27
2.1	The Puzzle according to Russell	27
2.2	Grice's Go	29
2.3	Antecedents of Russell's Formulation	32
2.4	Logic, Language, and History	40
3	The First Myth of 'Or'	43
3.1	Modern Sources	43
3.2	The Sign of the Beast	53
3.3	An Historical Interlude: Boole's Rule	70
4	The Puzzle about 'Or'	84
4.1	Conjunctive 'Or'	84
4.2	Attempted Solutions	89
4.3	The Larger Picture	107
5	Logic and Punctuation	114
5.1	Natural Logics	114
5.2	Natural Deontic Logic	116
5.3	Unnaturalness Elsewhere	128
5.4	The Punctuationist Account	138
5.5	Arrogative 'Or'	148
6	General Noun Phrases	161
6.1	'Or' and Quantification	161
6.2	Some Modern Sources	173
6.3	Experiments	183
6.4	Is 'Any' a Quantifier?	189
7	Form and Meaning	195
7.1	Scope and Form	195
7.2	Form and Meaning	205
7.3	Heteronomy and Discontinuous Syntax	212
8	'Or' in Opaque Contexts	218
8.1	Undistributive Or-lists	218
8.2	The Propositional Gloss on Opacity	229
9	The Second Myth of 'Or'	239
9.1	Modern Sources	239
9.2	Aut, Damned Myth!	240
9.3	Heredipety	246
10	Stoic Disjunction	252
10.1	What Stoic Disjunction Was Not	252
10.2	What the Languages Can Tell Us	260
10.3	What Stoic Disjunction May Have Been	273
11	The Adverbial 'Or'	276
11.1	A Pragmatic Approach	276
11.2	'Or' as Adverb	288
11.3	Conclusions	304
	Appendix: The Evidence of Empirical Research	317
	Bibliography	324
	Index of Names	338
	Index of Subjects	342