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Single Idea 7806

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 7. Unorthodox Quantification ]

Full Idea

Boolos virtually patented the new device of plural quantification.

Gist of Idea

Boolos invented plural quantification

Source

report of George Boolos (To be is to be the value of a variable.. [1984]) by José A. Benardete - Logic and Ontology

Book Ref

'A Companion of Philosophical Logic', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.359

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A Reaction

This would be 'there are some things such that...'