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A defense of branching quantification

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Adding branching quantification to a first-order language increases the expressive power of the language,without adding to its ontology. The present paper is a defense of this claim against Quine (1970) and Patton (1991).

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 77843-4237, College Station, TX, USA

    Michael Hand

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Hand, M. A defense of branching quantification. Synthese 95, 419–432 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063880

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