Single Idea 14249

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic]

Full Idea

Boolos's conception of plural logic is as a reinterpretation of second-order logic.

Gist of Idea

Boolos reinterprets second-order logic as plural logic

Source

report of George Boolos (On Second-Order Logic [1975]) by Oliver,A/Smiley,T - What are Sets and What are they For? n5

Book Reference

'Metaphysics (Philosophical Perspectives 20)', ed/tr. Hawthorne,John [Blackwell 2006], p.152


A Reaction

Oliver and Smiley don't accept this view, and champion plural reference differently (as, I think, some kind of metalinguistic device?).