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    Gabriel Uzquiano — Carmelics
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    Gabriel Uzquiano

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    Gabriel Uzquiano is a contemporary analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of language. He is known for his work on plural quantification, the metaphysics of propositions, and paradoxes arising at the intersection of logic and ontology, including the Russell-Myhill paradox. He has held positions at the University of Southern California and Oxford University.

    Notable Achievements

    1

    Contributed foundational work on plural logic and plural quantification in metaphysics

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    Developed influential analyses of the Russell-Myhill paradox and propositional identity

    3

    Advanced the study of set-theoretic paradoxes and their implications for ontology

    4

    Published widely on mereology and the metaphysics of abstract objects

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    Produced technical work bridging formal logic and traditional metaphysical questions

    Positions & Arguments(2)

    Philosophy of Language

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    The shared denotation of sentences (1) and (5) cannot be the propositions expressed by each sentence

    Modality & Possibility

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    The apparent multiplication of word-tokens from a single inscription based on different readings is not a genuine mereological multiplication of entities

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    2

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    Analytic Philosophy

    Topic Influence

    Modality & Possibility1
    Philosophy of Language1

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