Absolute Generality.

The problem of absolute generality has attracted much attention in recent philosophy. Agustin Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano have assembled a distinguished team of contributors to write new essays on the topic. They investigate the question of whether it is possible to attain absolute generality in thoug...

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Main Author: Rayo, Agustín
Other Authors: Uzquiano, Gabriel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2006.
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Summary:The problem of absolute generality has attracted much attention in recent philosophy. Agustin Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano have assembled a distinguished team of contributors to write new essays on the topic. They investigate the question of whether it is possible to attain absolute generality in thought and language and the ramifications of this question in the philosophy of logic and mathematics. - ;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 genera.
Physical Description:1 online resource (407 pages)
ISBN:9780191515347
0191515345
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.