« How's everything ? »

Motta, S. « How’s Everything? », Axiomathes 32 (Suppl 3), 805–818 (2022). 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10516-022-09632-4

Abstract / Résumé : 

After a critical presentation of the debate between absolutists and relativists regarding generality where I show that the debate is framed in a way that is bound to be harmful to the relativist’s position, I examine critically one of the customary arguments advanced against the relativist: the expressibility objection (according to which the relativist would be logically unable to express her own position). I then propose a radical way out of this debate – usually centered on semantic paradoxes – by arguing that it rests on an unintelligible notion of “object”. I finally introduce a useful distinction between omnis and totus to elucidate the notions in play.