Quantifiers, quantifiers, and quantifiers : themes in logic, metaphysics, and language /: themes in logic, metaphysics, and language. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alessandro Torza, editor.
• Editors: Torza, Alessandro
• Contents: Introduction; Alessandro Torza -- Part 1. Logical Constants -- Which Quantifiers are Logical? A Combined Semantical and Inferential Criterion; Solomon Feferman -- Implicit Definitions, Second-Order Quantifiers, and the Robustness of the Logical Operators; Arnold Koslow -- Quantifiers are Logical Constants, but Only Ambiguously; Sun-Joo Shin -- Part 2. Semantics of Natural Language -- Conjunctive, Disjunctive, Negative Objects and Generalized Quantification; Ken Akiba -- Quantifiers and Referential Use; Mario Gómez-Torrente -- Quantification and Logical Form; Andrea Iacona -- Quantification with Intentional and with Intensional Verbs; Frederike Moltmann -- Part III The Carnap-Quine Legacy -- Life on the Range: Quine{u2019}s Thesis and Semantic Indeterminacy; G. Aldo Antonelli -- Chalmers, Quantifier Variance and Mathematicians{u2019} Freedom; Sharon Berry -- 2There Is an {u2018}Is{u2019} in There Is3: Meinongian Quantification and Existence; Francesco Berto -- Qualifying Quantifying-in; Bjørn Jespersen -- Carnap, Quine, Quantification and Ontology; Gregory Lavers -- Quantifier Variance, Intensionality and Metaphysical Merit; David Liebesman -- Part 4. Metaphysics and Ontology -- Making Quantified Truths True; Axel Arturo Barcel{u03CC} Aspeitia -- Absolute Generality and Semantic Pessimism; J.P. Studd -- Necessarily Maybe. Quantifiers, Modality and Vagueness: Alessandro Torza -- What{u2019}s in a (Mental) Picture; Alberto Voltolini -- Part 5. Logical Systems -- Cross-World Identity, Temporal Quantifiers and the Question of Tensed Contents; Tero Tulenheimo -- What{u2019}s So Bad about Second-Order Logic?; Jason Turner -- {u2200} and }; Elia Zardini.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 526 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 160; Philosophy; Language and logic; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; PHILOSOPHY -- Logic; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers; Language and logic; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Mathematics -- Logic; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Semantics; Mathematical foundations; Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; Genetic epistemology; Semantics; Philosophy -- Epistemology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319183626; 3319183621; 3319183613; 9783319183619
• Related ISBNs: 9783319183619
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 31, 2015).
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