Absolute Generality

Rayo, Agust?n

ISBN 10: 0199276420 / ISBN 13: 9780199276424

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2007

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Riassunto:

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.

L'autore: Agustín Rayo is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). Gabriel Uzquiano is at The Ohio State University.

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Titolo: Absolute Generality
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: HRD
Condizione: New