Geach

One of the most interesting examples of plural locutions which resist singular paraphrase is the so-called Geach-Kaplan sentence:

Plural Quantification Linnebo, Øystein 2008

Consider the following discourse, which I shall call a Geach Discourse, adapted from the analogous conjunction in Geach [1967]:

Anaphora King, Jeffrey C. 2005

Paul Geach, LauncestonThis is a quandary that fascinated the five-year-old me at playgroup.

Notes and queries: All the colours of the rainbow, plus a few extra; What personalised car number plates say about their owners; The X Factor from outer space 2011

The same can be said for Mary Geach, the daughter of Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe.

The difficult issue of embryonic adoption 2008

(For an influential criticism of this theory of distribution see Geach 1962, and King 1985 for a reply.)

The Statue of a Writer 2009

As Geach saw it, we need to think of predication as constant across embedded and unembedded occurrences of predicative moral sentences so as not to commit a fallacy of equivocation in making arguments.

Boys in White Suits 2009

The only philosopher I know of who holds this view – not counting theologians such as Luther and Augustine – is Peter Geach.

What Is This “Secular Ethics” Of Which You Speak? 2007

This view was what Geach has called the "savage superstition ... that a man consists of two pieces, body and soul, which come apart at death."

Sticky Wants to Grab 2009

According to this theory, there is a set of basic units in each language: words, according to Geach

Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009

The Description Theory of Quotation was introduced in order to guarantee that ˜a quoted series of expressions is always a series of quoted expressions™ (Geach 1957, p. 82) and not ˜a single long word, whose parts have no separate significance™

Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009