The Substitutional Quantifier

The Monist 61 (3):408-425 (1978)
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If the substitutional interpretation of quantification is tenable, it provides a basis for reinterpreting any formal language-system as nominalist: each substituend for the variables of quantification either designates a concrete object or it is empty.

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10.5840/monist197861332

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