9113 | Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham] |
9624 | Numbers are a very general property of objects [Mill, by Brown,JR] |
9951 | It appears that numbers are adjectives, but they don't apply to a single object [Frege, by George/Velleman] |
9952 | Numerical adjectives are of the same second-level type as the existential quantifier [Frege, by George/Velleman] |
11031 | 'Jupiter has many moons' won't read as 'The number of Jupiter's moons equals the number many' [Rumfitt on Frege] |
8637 | The number 'one' can't be a property, if any object can be viewed as one or not one [Frege] |
9999 | For science, we can translate adjectival numbers into noun form [Frege] |
14465 | Maybe numbers are adjectives, since 'ten men' grammatically resembles 'white men' [Russell] |
9903 | Number words are not predicates, as they function very differently from adjectives [Benacerraf] |
18158 | Ordinals are mainly used adjectively, as in 'the first', 'the second'... [Bostock] |
13873 | Treating numbers adjectivally is treating them as quantifiers [Wright,C] |
17829 | Number words are unusual as adjectives; we don't say 'is five', and numbers always come first [Maddy] |
9620 | Empiricists base numbers on objects, Platonists base them on properties [Brown,JR] |
10000 | We might eliminate adjectival numbers by analysing them into blocks of quantifiers [Hofweber] |