• Korean Journal of Logic
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.105-121
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• 2011

The late professor Young-Jung Kim advanced a view that Existential Specification Rule (ES Rule) can be understood as a kind of polylemma. In arguing for this view, he also claimed that all propositions containing free variables are universal propositions. In this paper, I argue that his view on free variables incur numerous problems. Moreover, I introduce a new rule of inference called 'Universalized Conditionalization Rule' (UC Rule), so that I can show that his insight about ES Rule can be substantialized without an appeal to his problematic view on free variables. Finally, I show that ES Rule can be directly derived from UC Rule.