... that being possibly thus-and-so (in the epistemic sense of ‘possibly’) is not a trait that an object has in and of itself, but one that an object possesses only relative to a way of thinking of the domain of quantification. I consider two theories that implement this insight: a static version of counterpart...

...Jason Stanley Jeffrey C. King, Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account. Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books, 2001. Pp. xiii, 207. Cornell University 2002 Evans, G. 1979 . Reference and Contingency. Monist 62 : 161 -89. Neale, S. Term Limits. In Philosophical...

...Zoltán Gendler Szabó Consider the hypothesis that every quantified sentence in every natural language contains some expression or other whose extension constrains the domain of quantification. If the hypothesis is correct, quantificational domains are fixed in fundamentally different ways...

... skis off' are complex demonstratives. There are also plural complex demonstratives such as `these skis' and `those snowboarders smoking by the gondola'. My book Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account argues against what I call the direct reference account of complex demonstratives...

...Matthew Mandelkern; Ginger Schultheis; David Boylan This essay proposes a new theory of agentive modals : ability modals and their duals, compulsion modals. After criticizing existing approaches—the existential quantificational analysis, the universal quantificational analysis, and the conditional...

... representation in a novel language. In the latter half of the paper I turn to some technical questions concerning the treatment of quantification and demonstrate various equivalences between the diagrammatic and logical representations and a fragment of the λ -calculus. [email protected] © 2023 by Cornell...

... that are introduced in the attempt to clarify the thesis of relativism. In order to prepare the ground for these innovations, the standard model-theoretic semantics of quantifiers is recalled. It is argued that absolutists cannot take the intended model of absolutely general quantification to be set-theoretic...

...) Here ‘[p]’ is a singular term, read “the proposition that p.” (MOD) is simple and intuitive, but I don’t think it can give Künne what he wants. Künne is well aware that the quantification that occurs in (MOD) will seem suspicious, in particular ‘ p’, and he spends pages 356–68 to try to diffuse...

...Billy Dunaway Readers of Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics will nonetheless be treated to a constant flow of useful insights about important philosophical questions concerning ontology and quantification (chaps. 1–4). These are followed by careful argumentation geared toward providing...

... concepts. They have no analysis” (104–5). Three of the chapters—on identity, existence, and necessity—are largely devoted to polemics against quantificational analyses of these concepts. (A sub- 462 BOOK REVIEWS sidiary aim...

...-Quinean metaontological doctrine according to which existential quantification—be it in natural language or in a first-order language—is “ontologically innocent.” People who accept the literal truth of ‘Something is a so-and-so’ or ‘( ∃  x )( x is a so-and-so)’ do not thereby ontologically commit...

... with, or demonstratives to which I have no access. In any of these cases, there is no biconditional available to me to fix the extension of the truth-predicate that will do what I need. In addition, substitutional quantification will be of no help. Instead, Azzouni introduces a new device to deal with all...

... in the literature. © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 indefinite extensibility quantifier variance set theory paradox metaontology metasemantics Purported quantification over all sets, ordinal numbers, or cardinal numbers famously gives rise to paradox. One lesson that has been drawn from...

... to be debated; see Szabolcsi 2010 for an overview of recent work. © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 Frege senses quantification variable binding attitude verbs de re attitudes de se attitudes As Quine (1956) observed, the following sentence has a reading which, if true, would...

... of Wittgenstein on identity that I know of. In the process he also clarifies Wittgenstein’s position visi-vis the three problematic axioms of Pn’ncipia, namely, infinity, choice, and reducibility. Chapter 4 deals with Wittgenstein’s views on quantification. When he returned to philosophy in 1929, one...

... on the core of the proposal: the mental algorithms to access and compose concepts. The chapter focuses on some textbook constructions, including prediction and adverbial modification, tense, sentences, relative clauses, and quantification. For instance, Pietroski sketches a new explanation for the semantic...

... and free readings. Modality in natural language is therefore better analyzed as a system of object-language quantification over possible worlds—in which the syntax contains variables for worlds, and modals are object-language quantifiers—than in the traditional way with sentential operators that operate...

... to the conditions formed with the variables. (e) From (d), that quantification binding these variables is incoherent. In the introduction to the volume, Fine says that “the” failure occurs at the first step: in an example like 9 ≥ 7), 9 is the number of the planets, so ᮀ(the number...

... at the highest level, can nonetheless quite fail to engage 649 BOOK REVIEWS with each other. Boolos attributes to Dummett the thesis that Frege fell into contradiction by admitting into the Grundgesetze system higher-order quantification...

... of Arithmetic. Journal of Philosophy 81 : 123 -49. ____. 1990 . Where do the Natural Numbers Come From? Synthese 84 : 347 -407. Hofweber, Thomas. 2000a . Quantification and Non-existent Objects. In Empty Names, Fiction, and the Puzzles of Non-Existence , ed. A. Everett and T. Hofweber. Stanford...