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Plural Logic and Sensitivity to Order

David Nicolas

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Sentences that exhibit sensitivity to order (e.g. "John and Mary arrived at school in that order" and "Mary and John arrived at school in that order") present a challenge for the standard formulation of plural logic. In response, some authors have advocated new versions of plural logic based on more fine-grained notions of plural reference, such as serial reference [Hewitt 2012] and articulated reference [Ben-Yami 2013]. The aim of this article is to show that sensitivity to order should be accounted for without altering the standard formulation of plural logic. In particular, sensitivity to order does not call for a more fine-grained notion of plural reference. We point out that the phenomenon in question is quite broad and that current proposals are not equipped to deal with the full range of cases in which order plays a role. Then we develop an alternative, unified account, which locates the phenomenon not in the way in which plural terms can refer, but in the meaning of special expressions such as in that order and respectively.
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ijn_01219495 , version 1 (22-10-2015)

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Salvatore Florio, David Nicolas. Plural Logic and Sensitivity to Order. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2015, 93 (3), pp.444-464. ⟨10.1080/00048402.2014.963133⟩. ⟨ijn_01219495⟩
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