Abstract:Abstract Quantification is haunted by the specter of paradoxes. Since Russell, it has been a persistent idea that the paradoxes show what might have appeared to be absolutely unrestricted quantificati...Abstract Quantification is haunted by the specter of paradoxes. Since Russell, it has been a persistent idea that the paradoxes show what might have appeared to be absolutely unrestricted quantification to be somehow restricted. In the contemporary literature, this theme is taken up by Dummett (1973, 1993) and Parsons (1974a,b). Parsons, in particular, argues that both the Liar and Russell’s paradoxes are to be resolved by construing apparently absolutely unrestricted quantifiers as appropriately restricted. Building on Parsons’ work, I have advocated a contextualist version of the view that there is no absolutely unrestricted quantification (Glanzberg 2001, 2004a,b).Read More
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-11-23
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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