V—Generality, Extensibility, and Paradox

Absolutism is the view that quantifiers like ‘everything’ sometimes range over an absolutely comprehensive domain. The debate between absolutists and the relativists opposing them comes down, in significant part, to a trade-off between generality and collectability. But to reach this conclusion we m...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 2017-04, Vol.117 (1), p.81-101
Main Author: Studd, J. P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authoritarianism
Extensions
Philosophy
Relativism
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Summary:Absolutism is the view that quantifiers like ‘everything’ sometimes range over an absolutely comprehensive domain. The debate between absolutists and the relativists opposing them comes down, in significant part, to a trade-off between generality and collectability. But to reach this conclusion we must dispense with some long-standing concerns over the coherence of the argument from the paradoxes in favour of relativism and a heterodox absolutist response that seeks to reconcile the indefinite extensibility of set with the availability of an absolutely comprehensive domain.
ISSN:0066-7374
1467-9264
DOI:10.1093/arisoc/aox003