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Absolute Generality


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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.

Table of Contents:
Agustín Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano: Introduction 1: Kit Fine: Relatively Unrestricted Quantification 2: Michael Glanzberg: Context and Unrestricted Quantification 3: Geoffrey Hellman: Against 'Absolutely Everything'! 4: Shaughan Lavine: Something About Everything: Universal Quantification in the Universal Sense of Universal Quantification 5: Øystein Linnebo: Sets, Properties, and Unrestricted Quantification 6: Vann McGee: There's a Rule for Everything 7: Charles Parsons: The Problem of Absolute Universality 8: Agustín Rayo: Beyond Plurals 9: Stewart Shapiro and Crispin Wright: All Things Indefinitely Extensible 10: Gabriel Uzquiano: Unrestricted Unrestricted Quantification: The Cardinal Problem of Absolute Generality 11: Alan Weir: Is it too much to ask, to ask for everything? 12: Timothy Williamson: Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality

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Rayo and Uzquiano have put together a fine collection of essays on this knotty issue.... The volume starts with a brief introduction by the editors, which nicely sets the scene. As one would expect from a bunch of logicians of this calibre, the essays are insightful, thought provoking, and often technically clever.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780199276431
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 610 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199276439
  • Publisher Date: 23 Nov 2006
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 408
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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