THE UNIVERSE AMONG OTHER THINGS
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The Universe Among Other Things
Peter Simons has argued that the expression ‘the universe’ is not a genuine singular term: it can name neither a single, completely encompassing individual, nor a collection of individuals. (It is, rather, a semantically plural term standing equally for every existing object.) I offer reasons for resisting Simons’s arguments on both scores.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ratio
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0034-0006,1467-9329
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2006.00312.x