Absolute generality / edited by Agustín Rayo and Gabriel Uzquiano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rayo, Agustín, contributor.

Uzquiano, Gabriel, contributor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universals (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presenting a collection of essays on absolute generality, this volume represents a variety of approaches to the problem, with some of the contributions arguing for the possibility of quantification and some of them arguing against it. An introduction draws a helpful map of the philosophical terrain.

Contents:

Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Relatively Unrestricted Quantification; 3. Context and Unrestricted Quantification; 4. Against 'Absolutely Everything'!; 5. Something About Everything: Universal Quantification in the Universal Sense of Universal Quantification; 6. Sets, Properties, and Unrestricted Quantification; 7. There's a Rule for Everything; 8. The Problem of Absolute Universality; 9. Beyond Plurals; 10. All Things Indefinitely Extensible; 11. Unrestricted Unrestricted Quantification: The Cardinal Problem of Absolute Generality

12. Is it too much to Ask, to Ask for Everything?13. Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04199-7

1-280-75532-6

9786610755325

0-19-151534-5

1-4294-6008-3

OCLC:

437092093