Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe view that higher-level plural reference and quantification are legitimate and useful expressive resources, often in opposition to singularist analyses that reduce plurals to set-like objects.
Superplurals have come up time and again in the preceding chapters. We have observed on several occasions that the expressive resources afforded by superplurals would have useful applications.
2021, Salvatore Florio, Øystein Linnebo, The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic, Oxford University Press, page 174Synonyms: plupluralism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe view that higher-level plural reference and quantification are legitimate and useful expressive resources, often in opposition to singularist analyses that reduce plurals to set-like objects.
Origin
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