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Ideas for Ryan Wasserman, Bryan Magee and Willard Quine
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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification
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Quantifying into referentially opaque contexts often produces nonsense [Quine]
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Objects are the values of variables, so a referentially opaque context cannot be quantified into [Quine]
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No sense can be made of quantification into opaque contexts [Quine, by Hale]
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Finite quantification can be eliminated in favour of disjunction and conjunction [Quine, by Dummett]
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Universal quantification is widespread, but it is definable in terms of existential quantification [Quine]
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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification
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Quine thought substitutional quantification confused use and mention, but then saw its nominalist appeal [Quine, by Marcus (Barcan)]
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Either reference really matters, or we don't need to replace it with substitutions [Quine]
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If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine]
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You can't base quantification on substituting names for variables, if the irrationals cannot all be named [Quine]
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Some quantifications could be false substitutionally and true objectually, because of nameless objects [Quine]
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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 5. Second-Order Quantification
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Putting a predicate letter in a quantifier is to make it the name of an entity [Quine]
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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification
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Plurals can in principle be paraphrased away altogether [Quine]
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