Varieties of Indefinite Extensibility

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 56 (1):147-166 (2015)
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We look at recent accounts of the indefinite extensibility of the concept set and compare them with a certain linguistic model of indefinite extensibility. We suggest that the linguistic model has much to recommend over alternative accounts of indefinite extensibility, and we defend it against three prima facie objections

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10.1215/00294527-2835056

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Gabriel Uzquiano
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