| Title: | Necessity and Scope in the Logic of Quantification |
| Speaker: | Jeremy Kirby Associate Professor Philosophy Albion College Albion, MI |
| Abstract: | When I say "Eight is necessarily greater that seven," I state something that is true. In contrast, when I say "The number of planets is necessarily greater than seven," I say something that is false. (We can conceive of a smaller solar system, indeed at times the number of planets is revised.) Furthermore, the locutions "eight" and "the number of planets" seem to pick out the same thing? How can it be both true and false of the same thing that it is necessarily greater than seven? |
| Location: | Palenske 227 |
| Date: | 1/31/2013 |
| Time: | 3:30 PM |
@abstract{MCS:Colloquium:JeremyKirby:2013:1:31,
author = "{Jeremy Kirby}",
title = "{Necessity and Scope in the Logic of Quantification}",
address = "{Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium}",
month = "{31 January}",
year = "{2013}"
}