Everything, and Then Some
Everything, and Then Some
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一切,然后是一些
作者:
Stephan Krämer
On its intended interpretation, logical, mathematical and metaphysical discourse sometimes seems to involve absolutely unrestricted quantification. Yet our standard semantic theories do not allow for interpretations of a language as expressing absolute generality. A prominent strategy for defending absolute generality, influentially proposed by Timothy Williamson in his paper ‘Everything’ (2003), avails itself of a hierarchy of quantifiers of ever increasing orders to develop non-standard semantic theories that do provide for such interpretations. However, as emphasized by Øystein Linnebo and Agustín Rayo (2012), there is pressure on this view to extend the quantificational hierarchy beyond the finite level, and, relatedly, to allow for a cumulative conception of the hierarchy. In his recent book,Modal Logic as Metaphysics(2013), Williamson yields to that pressure. I show that the emerging cumulative higher-orderist theory has implications of a strongly generality-relativist flavour, and consequently undermines much of the spirit of generality absolutism that Williamson set out to defend.
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1468-0149.1971.tb00571.x
发表时间:
1971
期刊:
Philosophical Books
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作者:
A. Prior;P. Geach;A. Kenny
通讯作者:
A. Kenny
DOI:
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发表时间:
1999
期刊:
Notre Dame J. Formal Log.
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作者:
M. Detlefsen
通讯作者:
M. Detlefsen
DOI:
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发表时间:
2014
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作者:
Salvatore Florio
通讯作者:
Salvatore Florio
DOI:
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发表时间:
2006
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作者:
Øystein Linnebo
通讯作者:
Øystein Linnebo
DOI:
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发表时间:
2014
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作者:
Stephan Krämer
通讯作者:
Stephan Krämer