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Absolute Generality Paperback / softback
Edited by Agustin (, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) Rayo, Gabriel (, The Ohio State University) Uzquiano
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780199276431
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780199276431