Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Elimination/eliminability/HintikkaVsRussell/Hintikka: in order to eliminate seemingly denotative descriptions, one must assume that the quantifiers and bound variables go over individuals that are identified descriptively.
Otherwise the real Bismarck would not be an admissible value of the variables with which we express that there is an individual of a certain kind.
Problem: then these quantifiers must not be constituents of the propositions, for their domains of values consists not merely of objects of acquaintance. So Russell's mistake was a twofold one.
1.
Quantifier/variable/Russell/Hintikka: in 1905 he had already stopped thinking that quantifiers and bound variables are real constituents of propositions.
Def Apparent Variable/Russell/Hintikka: an apparant variable is a bound variable.
2.
Acquaintance/Russell: values of the variables should only be objects of the acquaintance (HintikkaVsRussell).
>Quantifiers, >Quantification, >Propositions, >Acquaintance.