[FOM] Understanding universal quantification

Chris Menzel cmenzel at tamu.edu
Mon Feb 24 18:59:24 EST 2003


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:49:14PM -0000, Dean Buckner wrote:
> ...
> Frege's contribution to logic was not the quantifiers, but a different
> view of the proposition, in particular, of the predicate...  

But surely it is perverse not to count the revolutionary theory of
quantification required by this account of the predicate as part of
Frege's (and, independently, Peirce's) contribution to logic.

Chris Menzel



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