Quote: number words function like quantification operators; if numbers exist then so should quantifiers

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Frege chose as the number 3 the extension … equivalence class--the class of all classes equivalent with … … [p. 283] We have already seen that there are … "), the only putative cases being along the … ["The lions in the zoo are seventeen"], and therefore rather implausible. The other anomaly is that number … in having to appear at the head of … (6) The five lovely little square blue tiles … [p. 283] Number words function so much like operators … should be accompanied by a readiness to make … the one, the many, the few, the all, … [footnote:] And indeed why not "I am the one who gave …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: FregeG defined number as an equivalence class, but numbers are neither predicates nor adjectives

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