A Plea for Substitutional Quantification
Journal of Philosophy (1971)
Abstract
I argue that, contrary to statements by quine, substitutional quantification expresses in some cases a genuine concept of existence that it appropriate to certain conceptions about abstract entities. i raise an objection to the suggestion that, short of set theory, all quantification over abstract entities is substitutional.
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