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Ideas for 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence', 'Noneism or Allism?' and 'The Logic of What Might Have Been'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

15533	We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis]
	Full Idea: Substitutionalists simulate quantification over fictional characters by quantifying for real over fictional names.
	From: David Lewis (Noneism or Allism? [1990], p.159)
	A reaction: I would say that a fiction is a file of conceptual information, identified by a label. The label brings baggage with it, and there is no existence in the label.

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 7. Unorthodox Quantification

15534	We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis]
	Full Idea: We can quantify over Meinongian objects by quantifying for real over property bundles (such as the bundle of roundness and squareness).
	From: David Lewis (Noneism or Allism? [1990], p.159)