Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2022
Alex Oliver, Timothy Smiley
Pages 226-231
https://doi.org/10.5840/tht202451629
Snyder and Shapiro¡¯s Critique of Pseudo-Singularity
Call a term ¡®pseudo-singular¡¯ if it is syntactically singular but semantically plural. ¡®The pair who wrote Principia¡¯ is a good example, standing as it does for the two individuals, Whitehead and Russell. In this journal (2021), Eric Snyder and Stewart Shapiro launched an attack on the idea, calling it ¡®linguistically and logically untenable.¡¯ In this reply we rebut every one of their criticisms.