Full plural logic

In Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley, Plural Logic. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 233-244 (2013)
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This chapter presents a second topic neutral system of plural logic, _full plural logic_. It is obtained from the mid-plural system of the previous chapter by allowing plural variables to be bound by quantifiers and also by an operator symbolizing plurally unique description. Naturally, there are great gains in expressive power. The price is the loss of axiomatizability. A partial axiomatization is presented which combines the axioms for mid-plural logic with plural versions of those for singular logic. A plural version of comprehension is derived from the resulting axioms, and versions of plural choice are formalized.

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reprint Oliver, Alex; Smiley, Timothy (2016) "Full plural logic". In Oliver, Alex, Smiley, Timothy, Plural Logic: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, pp. 243-254: Oxford University Press (2016)

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