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Full Idea
Boolos virtually patented the new device of plural quantification.
Gist of Idea
Boolos invented plural quantification
Source
report of George Boolos (To be is to be the value of a variable.. [1984]) by José A. Benardete - Logic and Ontology
Book Ref
'A Companion of Philosophical Logic', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.359
A Reaction
This would be 'there are some things such that...'
| 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] |