dc.contributor.author | Rayo, Agustin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-25T20:19:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-07-25T20:19:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-12 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780199659081 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0199659087 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71817 | |
dc.description.abstract | Years ago, when I was young and reckless, I believed that there was such a thing as an allinclusive domain.1 Now I have come to see the error of my ways. The source of my mistake was a view that might be labeled ‘Tractarianism’. Tractarians believe that language is subject to a metaphysical constraint. In order for an atomic sentence to be true, there needs to be a certain kind of correspondence between the semantic structure of the sentence and the ‘metaphysical structure’ of reality. The purpose of this paper is to explain why I think Tractarianism is mistaken, and what I think an anti-Tractarian should say about absolutely general quantification. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659081.001.0001 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | MIT web domain | en_US |
dc.title | Absolute Generality Reconsidered | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Rayo, Agustin. "Absolute Generality Reconsidered." Chapter 4 in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 7, Edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Dec. 2012. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy | en_US |
dc.contributor.approver | Rayo, Agustin | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Rayo, Agustin | |
dc.relation.journal | Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 7 | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Rayo, Agustin | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2770 | |
mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |