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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 generality is intimately connected with the set-theoretic antinomies. But the topic of absolute generality has enjoyed a surge of interest in recent years. It has become increasingly apparent that its ramifications extend well beyond the foundations of set theory. Connections include semantic indeterminacy, logical consequence, higher-order languages, and metaphysics. Rayo and Uzquiano present for the first time a collection of essays on absolute generality. These newly commissioned articles -- written by an impressive array of international scholars -- draw the reader into the forefront of contemporary research on the subject. The volume represents a variety of approaches to the problem, with some of the contributions arguing for the possibility of all-inclusive quantification and some of them arguing against it. An introduction by the editors draws a helpful map of the philosophical terrain.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Philosophy of language

• Full title: Absolute Generality
• Author: Agustín Rayo
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• EAN: 9780199276431
• ISBN: 0199276439
• ID: 04531381
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 580 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 158 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. November 2006

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