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Showing posts with label second order quantification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label second order quantification. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2024

Goodman and Quine and transitive closure

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In the previous post , I showed that Goodman and Quine’s counting method fails for objects that have too much overlap. I think (though the ...
Friday, November 8, 2024

No fix for Goodman and Quine's counting

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In yesterday’s post , I noted that Goodman and Quine’s nominalist mereological definition of what it is to say that there are more cats tha...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Reducing de re to de dicto modality

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In my previous post , I gave an initial defense of a theory of qualitative haecceities in terms of qualitative origins: qualitative haecceit...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Particularizers instead of haecceities

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A haecceity of x is a property that, necessarily, x and only x has. For instance, it might be the property of being identical with x ...
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