02984nam 2200601 a 450 991045817820332120200520144314.01-280-75532-697866107553250-19-151534-51-4294-6008-3(CKB)1000000000400817(EBL)415053(OCoLC)437092093(SSID)ssj0000096261(PQKBManifestationID)11120135(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096261(PQKBWorkID)10076528(PQKB)10958854(MiAaPQ)EBC415053(Au-PeEL)EBL415053(CaPaEBR)ebr10271473(CaONFJC)MIL75532(EXLCZ)99100000000040081720070123d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAbsolute generality[electronic resource] /edited by Agustín Rayo and Gabriel UzquianoOxford Clarendon Press ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (407 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-927643-9 0-19-927642-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Relatively Unrestricted Quantification; 3. Context and Unrestricted Quantification; 4. Against 'Absolutely Everything'!; 5. Something About Everything: Universal Quantification in the Universal Sense of Universal Quantification; 6. Sets, Properties, and Unrestricted Quantification; 7. There's a Rule for Everything; 8. The Problem of Absolute Universality; 9. Beyond Plurals; 10. All Things Indefinitely Extensible; 11. Unrestricted Unrestricted Quantification: The Cardinal Problem of Absolute Generality12. Is it too much to Ask, to Ask for Everything?13. Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality; IndexThe problem of absolute generality has attracted much attention in recent philosophy. Agustin Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano have assembled a distinguished team of contributors to write new essays on the topic. They investigate the question of whether it is possible to attain absolute generality in thought and language and the ramifications of this question in the philosophy of logic and mathematics. - ;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 generaUniversals (Philosophy)Electronic books.Universals (Philosophy)111/.2Rayo Agustín968803Uzquiano Gabriel968804MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458178203321Absolute generality2200903UNINA