Plurals and modals

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (4-5):654-676 (2016)
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Abstract

Consider one of several things. Is the one thing necessarily one of the several? This key question in the modal logic of plurals is clarified. Some defenses of an affirmative answer are developed and compared. Various remarks are made about the broader philosophical significance of the question.

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Øystein Linnebo
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Plural quantification.Ø Linnebo - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Modal Logic as Metaphysics.Timothy Williamson - 2013 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Word and Object.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1960 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 17 (2):278-279.
The potential hierarchy of sets.Øystein Linnebo - 2013 - Review of Symbolic Logic 6 (2):205-228.
Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers.Kit Fine - 2005 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

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