Assertion: existential quantifier | /r/CapableOf | carve at nature's joints
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text: He discusses Sider's idea of "logical joints" -- that some possible logical expressions, including some unrestricted existential quantifier, carve at nature's joints -- and while he dismisses the idea as mysterious, his main point is that even if there are logical joints, and even if meanings that carve at the joints are reference-magnets, more eligible to be meant than other meanings, charity can and often does trump reference-magnetism, so his argument is not really threatened (pp. 122, 130).