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Single Idea 10671
[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions
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Full Idea
If we extend the power of language with plural definite descriptions, these would pick out the largest class of things that fit the description.
Gist of Idea
Plural definite descriptions pick out the largest class of things that fit the description
Source
Keith Hossack (Plurals and Complexes [2000], 3)
Book Ref
-: 'British Soc for the Philosophy of Science' [-], p.416
The
21 ideas
from 'Plurals and Complexes'
10664
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Complex particulars are either masses, or composites, or sets
[Hossack]
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10663
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A thought can refer to many things, but only predicate a universal and affirm a state of affairs
[Hossack]
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10665
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Leibniz's Law argues against atomism - water is wet, unlike water molecules
[Hossack]
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10666
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Plural reference will refer to complex facts without postulating complex things
[Hossack]
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10669
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Plural reference is just an abbreviation when properties are distributive, but not otherwise
[Hossack]
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10668
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We are committed to a 'group' of children, if they are sitting in a circle
[Hossack]
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10671
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Plural definite descriptions pick out the largest class of things that fit the description
[Hossack]
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10675
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A plural comprehension principle says there are some things one of which meets some condition
[Hossack]
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10674
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A plural language gives a single comprehensive induction axiom for arithmetic
[Hossack]
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10673
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Plural language can discuss without inconsistency things that are not members of themselves
[Hossack]
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10676
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The Axiom of Choice is a non-logical principle of set-theory
[Hossack]
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10677
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Extensional mereology needs two definitions and two axioms
[Hossack]
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10678
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The relation of composition is indispensable to the part-whole relation for individuals
[Hossack]
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10681
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In arithmetic singularists need sets as the instantiator of numeric properties
[Hossack]
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10680
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The theory of the transfinite needs the ordinal numbers
[Hossack]
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10682
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The fusion of five rectangles can decompose into more than five parts that are rectangles
[Hossack]
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10683
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We could ignore space, and just talk of the shape of matter
[Hossack]
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10684
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I take the real numbers to be just lengths
[Hossack]
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10685
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Set theory is the science of infinity
[Hossack]
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10686
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The Axiom of Choice guarantees a one-one correspondence from sets to ordinals
[Hossack]
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10687
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Maybe we reduce sets to ordinals, rather than the other way round
[Hossack]
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