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Are They Class-names?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

J. M. Hinton
Affiliation:
Worcester College, Oxford

Extract

We often, in effect, take it for granted that some word or phrase is what is called ‘the name of a class, be that class empty or non-empty’. We do so whenever in effect we either wonder about, or mean to be taking a view on, the number of members a certain suppositious class has, on the ultrasimple number scale: ‘None, more than none’.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1982

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References

1 A shorter version of this article was read in 1978 to the Minnesota Philosophical Society and to the Philosophy Colloquium of the University of Miami.