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1 online resource (396 pages) |
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Relatively unrestricted quantification / Kit Fine -- Context and unrestricted quantification / Michael Glanzberg -- Against ‘absolutely everything’! / Geoffrey Hellman -- Something about everything : universal quantification in the universal sense of universal quantification / Shaughan Lavine -- Sets, properties, and unrestricted quantification / Øystein Linnebo -- There’s a rule for everything / Vann McGee -- The problem of absolute universality / Charles Parsons -- Beyond plurals / Agustín Rayo -- All things indefinitely extensible / Stewart Shapiro and Crispin Wright -- Unrestricted unrestricted quantification : the cardinal problem of absolute generality / Gabriel Uzquiano -- Is it too much to ask, to ask for everything? / Alan Weir -- Absolute identity and absolute generality / Timothy Williamson |
| Summary |
Is it possible to quantify over absolutely all there is? Or must all of our quantifiers range over a less-than-all-inclusive domain? It has commonly been thought that the question of absolute generality is intimately connected with the set-theoretic antinomies. But the topic of absolute generality has enjoyed a surge of interest in recent years. It has become increasingly apparent that its ramifications extend well beyond the foundations of set theory. Connections include semantic indeterminacy, logical consequence, higher-order languages, and metaphysics. Rayo and Uzquiano present for the first time a collection of essays on absolute generality. These newly commissioned articles - written by an impressive array of international scholars - draw the reader into the forefront of contemporary research on the subject. The volume represents a variety of approaches to the problem, with some of the contributions arguing for the possibility of all-inclusive quantification and some of them arguing against it. An introduction by the editors draws a helpful map of the philosophical terrain |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Universals (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Universales (Filosofía)
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Universals (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rayo, Agustín, editor.
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Uzquiano, Gabriel, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191515347 |
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0191515345 |
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1429460083 |
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9781429460088 |
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