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Conventionalism /

"The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root of so-called necessary truths, on the one hand, and much of empirical science, on the other, reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. Convent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ben-Menahem, Yemima, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview : the varieties of conventionalism
  • Origins : Poincaré and Duhem on convention
  • Relativity : from "experience and geometry" to "geometry and experience"
  • Implicit definition
  • "Unlimited possibilities" : Carnap on convention
  • Metaphor and argument : Quine on convention
  • Wittgenstein : from conventionalism to iconoclasm.