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Re: [jboske] McCawley on existential import



In a message dated 10/2/2002 5:01:02 PM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@lycos.co.uk writes:

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I can't find where McCawley says the universal quantifier has
existential import. Is it distinct from his advocacy of
restricted quantification?

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I am working from memory, so I can't point you more accuraely than I did: right after the discussion of Logic's way of dealing with "all S is P."  It may be, in fact , that this is about restricted quantification and never mentions existential import.  It may even be that existentila import is not even implicit in the discussion, though I would find that odd of McCawley.