Meanings
plural pluplurals
- rhetoricgrammarA word that is its own plural; an autological plural form.
- human sciencesA pluralized plural; a variable or term that refers to a collection of plural collections, without reducing them to a single set or composite unit.
How will this plural approach translate sentences of DKLish that are themselves plurally quantified? As Gabriel Uzquiano (2004) points out, 'pluplural' quantifiers over simples will be needed...
2009, Theodore Sider, “Ontological Realism”, in Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, page 395Synonyms: superplural, intensive plural, perplural, plurally plural, plural-plural
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA pluralized plural; a variable or term that refers to a collection of plural collections, without reducing them to a single set or composite unit.
Origin
From plu- + plural (blend of plural + plural).
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