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Philosophical perspectives on infinity /
Exploring philosophical questions about infinity, Graham Oppy examines how the infinite lurks everywhere, both in science and in our ordinary thoughts about the world. He also analyzes the many puzzles and paradoxes that follow in the train of the infinite, addressing such simple notions as counting...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Beginnings and puzzles
- 2. Mathematical preliminaries
- 3. Some cases discussed
- 4. Space, time, and spacetime
- 5. Physical infinities
- 6. Probability and decision theory
- 7. Mereology
- 8. Some philosophical considerations
- 9. Infinite regress and sufficient reason.