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Showing posts with label fusions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fusions. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Plural quantification and the continuum hypothesis

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Some people, including myself, are concerned that plural quantification may be quantification over sets in logical clothing rather than a pu...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Megethology as mathematics and a regress of structuralisms

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In his famous “Mathematics is Megethology” , Lewis gives a brilliant reduction of set theory to mereology and plural quantification. A centr...
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Fusion and the Axiom of Choice

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Assume classical mereology. Then for any formula that has a satisfier, there is a fusion of all of its satisfiers. More precisely, if ϕ is ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Plural and singular grounding

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Here’s a tempting principle: If x and y ground z , then the fusion of x and y grounds z . In other words, we don’t need proper plura...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Do all positive truths have truthmakers?

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Consider this thesis: Every positive true proposition has a truthmaker. This seems plausible. But I think it is only reasonable to accep...
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