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Full Idea
We can quantify over Meinongian objects by quantifying for real over property bundles (such as the bundle of roundness and squareness).
Gist of Idea
We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties
Source
David Lewis (Noneism or Allism? [1990], p.159)
Book Ref
Lewis,David: 'Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology' [CUP 1999], p.159
| 15878 | Some quantifiers, such as 'any', rule out any notion of order within their range [Harré] |
| 10774 | There are at least five unorthodox quantifiers that could be used [Tharp] |
| 7806 | Boolos invented plural quantification [Boolos, by Benardete,JA] |
| 15534 | We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis] |
| 15156 | The universal and existential quantifiers were chosen to suit mathematics [Soames] |
| 6068 | We need an Intentional Quantifier ("some of the things we talk about.."), so existence goes into the proposition [McGinn] |
| 15138 | Not all quantification is objectual or substitutional [Williamson] |
| 8711 | Intuitionists read the universal quantifier as "we have a procedure for checking every..." [Friend] |
| 18771 | Stop calling ∃ the 'existential' quantifier, read it as 'there is...', and range over all entities [Anderson,CA] |