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Titolo: |
Absolute generality [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Agustín Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (407 p.) |
Disciplina: | 111/.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Universals (Philosophy) |
Altri autori: |
RayoAgustín
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Generality |
12. Is it too much to Ask, to Ask for Everything?13. Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The 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 genera |
Titolo autorizzato: | Absolute generality ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-383-04199-7 |
1-280-75532-6 | |
9786610755325 | |
0-19-151534-5 | |
1-4294-6008-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823689503321 |
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