WHAT DO THE EXISTENTIAL QUANTIFIER AND EXISTENCE HAVE IN COMMON?

• Authors: Vlasakova M.
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Recent extensional logic considers a formula containing existential quantifier as an adequate way of rewriting a statement about the existence of something. Quine even claims that 'to be is to be the value of a variable'. That means that if we consider a theory to be true, we have to treat all members of an appropriate universe as existing. This article intends to point out a difficulty in this conception: The primary task of an existential quantifier is only to claim that something can be found in a universe, whatever the universe is.

Keywords

EN

EXISTENTIAL QUANTIFIER; QUINE'S NOTION OF EXISTENCE; REAL EXISTENCE

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 177-186
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vlasakova M.

• M. Vlasakova, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA03266743