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the triviality of the issue of import



The one thing I feel relatively strongly about is that all
restricted quantification should behave alike, with respect
to importingness. Given that, we have two possibilities,

1. RQ is importing. Therefore DeMorgan fails to apply to 
RQ when the quantified set is empty. But it is so meaningless
to quantify an empty set that we would never want to do it,
so it is of no practical consequence whether DeMorgan applies
to it. 

2. RQ is nonimporting. But it is so meaningless to apply RQ
to an empty set that RQ always implicates a nonempty set.
DeMorgan applies to RQ, but again this is of no practical
consequence.

If the choice is between (1) and (2), as I think it should
be, then it is hard to see how anybody could give a shit
which one is chosen. If it comes down to this choice and a
vote on it, I will abstain; I'd be equally happy with tossing
a coin to decide it.

--And.