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- From: cmenzel@kbssun1.tamu.edu (Chris Menzel)
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- Subject: Re: No Reification Here
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 00:28:03 GMT
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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- holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:
- : First-order logic does not commit one to abstract objects at all.
-
- Seems hasty, Randall. Don't you think the semantics for first-order
- logic (or better perhaps, a first-order language) commits you to
- (among other things) the semantic entities that interpret the
- constants and predicates of the language? If so, then you're at least
- committed to sets or classes or, for friends of the forms, properties
- and relations as the meanings of predicates.
-
- --Chris Menzel
- Philosophy Department
- Texas A&M University
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