back to ideas for this text


Single Idea 10790

[from 'Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers' by Ruth Barcan Marcus, in 5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification ]

Full Idea

An adequate language for referring to infinitely many objects would seem to require variables and quantifiers in addition to names.

Gist of Idea

Quantifiers are needed to refer to infinitely many objects

Source

Ruth Barcan Marcus (Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers [1978], p.164)

Book Reference

'Philosophy of Logic: an anthology', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.164