A Note on Surplus Content

Australasian Philosophical Review 1 (2):202-205 (2017)
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ABSTRACTIn the target article, Stephen Yablo appeals crucially to the notion of surplus content. But when he does so, it is by appeal to the notion of mathematical addition and subtraction. In this commentary, I argue that the analogy with mathematical subtraction is underdeveloped and potentially misleading.

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10.1080/24740500.2017.1346420

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Aboutness.Stephen Yablo - 2014 - Oxford: Princeton University Press.
The Connectives.Lloyd Humberstone - 2011 - MIT Press. Edited by Lloyd Humberstone.
Index.Stephen Yablo - 2014 - In Aboutness. Oxford: Princeton University Press. pp. 219-222.

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