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The phrase "To be is to be a value of a Variable" was inspired by Quine (1948), not Boolos (1984) in his seminal "On What There Is": https://www.uvm.edu/~lderos
by jhickok 3y ago
The phrase "To be is to be a value of a Variable" was inspired by Quine (1948), not Boolos (1984) in his seminal "On What There Is": https://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/metaph/OnWhatThereIs.pdf https://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/metaph/OnWhatThereIs.p...
The paper is still worth reading today.
- vlz 3y agoYes, thank you! And Quine spoke about „the value of a bound variable“ if I am not mistaken which seems like a minor point, but there has to be some universe of discourse and some quantification has to go on for a variable to be bound. This is a good quick background on Quines motivation and further developments btw: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/23798 https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/23798