Abstract (may include machine translation)
In a series of publications I have claimed that by contrast to standard formal languages, quantifiers in natural language combine with a general term to form a quantified argument, in which the general term's role is to determine the domain or plurality over which the quantifier ranges. In a recent paper Zoltán Gendler Szabõ tried to provide a counterexample to this analysis and derived from it various conclusions concerning quantification in natural language, claiming it is often 'bare'. I show that Szabõ's example fails, and that even if it were successful his conclusions would not be supported by it.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 175-188 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly |
Volume | 95 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2014 |