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[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification ]

Full Idea

Substitutional quantification may be regarded as referential quantification over expressions.

Gist of Idea

Substitutional quantification is referential quantification over expressions

Source

Kit Fine (Quine on Quantifying In [1990], p.124)

Book Ref

Fine,Kit: 'Modality and Tense' [OUP 2005], p.124

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A Reaction

This is an illuminating gloss. Does such quantification involve some ontological commitment to expressions? I feel an infinite regress looming.

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The 2 ideas from 'Quine on Quantifying In'

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Is it the sentence-token or the sentence-type that has a logical form? [Fine,K]

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Substitutional quantification is referential quantification over expressions [Fine,K]