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Against Vague and Unnatural Existence: Reply to Liebesman and Eklund
Author(s) -
Sider Theodore
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2009.00718.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , mathematical economics , information retrieval , library science , mathematics
David Liebesman and Matti Eklund (2007) argue that my “indeterminacy argument”—according to which quanti ers are never vague—and my “naturalness argument”—according to which quanti ers “carve at the joints”—do not sit well with each other.1 I don’t agree, but I do think that Liebesman and Eklund have shown something important: the indeterminacy argument is not as independent of the naturalness argument as it may have appeared. In any case, I welcome the occasion provided by their challenging paper to clarify and re ne my arguments.