Byeong-Uk Yi, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Universals: Their Existence and Nature
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$35,869
Universals: Their Existence and Nature
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$16,173
Semantic Relationism and the Relationist View of Proposition: The Significance of Relational Features of Contents of Language and Thought
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$69,421

All 6 grants and awards

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Universals: Their Existence and Nature

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Yi, Byeong-Uk

Keywords: universal; property; relation; attribute; realism; conceptualism; nominalism; metaphysics; ontology

$35,869

Universals: Their Existence and Nature

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Yi, Byeong-Uk

Keywords: universal; property; relation; attribute; realism; conceptualism; nominalism; metaphysics; ontology

$16,173

Semantic Relationism and the Relationist View of Proposition: The Significance of Relational Features of Contents of Language and Thought

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Yi, Byeong-Uk

Keywords: semantic relationism; semantic coordination; sense; direct reference; referentialism; Frege's puzzle; semantic content; proposition

$69,421

Speaking of the many and the much: plurality and the mass/count distinction across languages

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Yi, Byeong-Uk

Keywords: semantics; mass/count; numeral classifier; plurality; one/many; stuff; individual; classifier language; Chinese; Japanese; Korean; singular/plural; plural logic; the white horse paradox; Gongsun Long; ancient Chinese logic; bare noun; mass noun hypothesis

$140,156

Natural language plurals, cognition of the many, and knowledge of mathematics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Yi, Byeong-Uk

Keywords: the many; the one; plural predication; plural property; singular; plural; plural logic; semantics; number; quantity; individual; stuff; cognition; arithmetic; mathematical knowledge; perception

$63,550

Plurals: their logic and semantics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Yi, Byeong-Uk

Keywords: logic; metaphysics; philosophy of language; semantics; philosophy of mathematics

$61,570

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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