On Quantification and Ontology

TL;DR: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language covers a wide range of topics in the philosophy of language, including semantics, pragmatics, logic, and methodology. It includes contributions from leading scholars in the field and provides a comprehensive overview of the field.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors bring clarity regarding the doctrine of quantifier variance, and two prominent arguments against this doctrine, the collapse argument and the Eklund-Hawthorne argument.

TL;DR: Second-order logic is generally thought problematic by the philosophical populace as discussed by the authors, and there are several potential arguments against second-order quantification generally, such as ontological commitment, set theory in sheep's clothing, and the expressive power of full secondorder logic.

TL;DR: In this article, Tarski argued that semantics is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real.

TL;DR: Second-order logic is generally thought problematic by the philosophical populace as discussed by the authors, and there are several potential arguments against second-order quantification generally, such as ontological commitment, set theory in sheep's clothing, and the expressive power of full secondorder logic.

TL;DR: In this article, Tarski argued that semantics is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine one common argument in favor of the thesis that presentism entails serious presentism, the view that objects can exemplify properties or stand in relations only at times at which they exist.

TL;DR: This dissertation develops an inferentialist theory of meaning by developing a theory of quantification as marking coherent ways a language can be expanded and modality as the means by which the authors can reflect on the norms governing the assertion and denial conditions of their language.