Heavyweight quantification as restricted quantification

Authors

  • Gábor Bács Kaposvári Egyetem Pedagógiai Kar -- Kaposvár University Faculty of Pedagogy

Keywords:

ontological realism, maximalism, quantification (restricted–unre-stricted, lightweight–heavyweight), quantifier variance

Abstract

There is a shared dogma among contemporary metaontologists that heavyweight quantification is unrestricted quantification. In this paper I present an exclusion argument for heavyweight ontological realism and outline a new concepction of lightweight and heavyweight quantification based on the rejection of this dogma.

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Published

2011-02-15

Issue

No. 33 (2011): Acta Scientiarum Socialium

Section

Philosophy

How to Cite

Heavyweight quantification as restricted quantification. (2011). Acta Scientiarum Socialium, 33, 209-212. https://journal.uni-mate.hu/index.php/asc/article/view/223