[lojban] Re: Hintikka on Quantifier Scope

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:21:28PM -0400, 2 = 3 wrote:
> "Here we are beginning to see the whole horror of Frege's mistake.
> The notation he introduced (like the later notation of Russell and
> Whitehead) arbitrarily rules out certain perfectly possible
> patterns of dependence and independence between quantifiers or
> between connectives and quantifiers."
> 
> http://www.hf.uio.no/filosofi/njpl/vol1no2/revolution/revolution.pdf

I don't suppose there's a gentler version?  He completely lost me at
"It is intuitively obvious what is meant by such formulas as" on the
second page. (in particular, I have no idea what the "V-like-thing
slash for-all x" construction means).

Alternatively, you could just tell us why we care?

-Robin

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