A defense of branching quantification

Michael Hand

pp. 419-432

in: Synthese 95 (3), 1993.

Abstract

Adding branching quantification to a first-order language increases the expressive power of the language,without adding to its ontology. The present paper is a defense of this claim against Quine (1970) and Patton (1991).

Cited authors

Quine Willard Van Orman