Understanding the Many (Studies in Philosophy)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780415938648
First sentence: In Roots of Reference, Quine says: Occasionally ... [people] say things that involve no explicit mention of classes or attributes but that come nevertheless to call for quantification over classes when we paraphrase them into economically schematic language.
Description: This book presents a mathematically and logically sophisticated analysis of the "many," or the "more than one." Covering issues of natural numbers, facts and their proper analysis, properties and their instantiation, as well as the logic of sets, this book elucidates one of the most debated concepts of the century.