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WHAT DO THE EXISTENTIAL QUANTIFIER AND EXISTENCE HAVE IN COMMON?

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Vlasakova M.
Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
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2007
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vol. 14
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issue 2
177-186
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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.
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