Objectual Quantifier Theory.
This paper is a study of Objectual Quantifier Theory, the view that quantificational noun phrases, such as every woman and some pig, denote generic individuals, such as the arbitrary woman and the indefinite pig. We explore the motivations for this view and various ways of developing it, taking insp...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 793 - 856 |
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