A DEFENSE OF BRANCHING QUANTIFICATION Academic Article

abstract

• Adding branching quantification to a first-order language increases the expressive power of the language, without adding to its ontology. The present paper is a defense of this claim against Quine (1970) and Patton (1991). 1993 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

authors

• Hand, Michael

published proceedings

• SYNTHESE

author list (cited authors)

• HAND, M.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• HAND, M

publication date

• June 1993

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science  Journal

keywords

• 50 Philosophy And Religious Studies
• 5003 Philosophy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/BF01063880

start page

• 419

end page

• 432

volume

• 95

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1007%2Fbf01063880