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Mathematics in philosophy : selected essays /
"This book by an American philosopher brings together eleven essays treating problems in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. A common point of view, that the mathematical thought is central to our thought in general, underlies the essays. In his introduction, Parsons articulates that point...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1983.
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| Colección: | Cornell classics in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Ontology and mathematics
- 2. A plea for substitutional quantification
- 3. Informal axiomatization, formalization, and the concept of truth
- 4. Infinity and Kant's conception of the "possibility of experience"
- 5. Kant's philosophy of arithmetic
- 6. Frege's theory of number
- 7. Quine on the philosophy of mathematics
- 8. Sets and classes
- 9. The liar paradox
- 10. What is the iterative conception of set?
- 11. Sets and modality
- App. 1. Free modal logic and modal logic with scope operators
- App. 2. Relation of theories of potential sets to standard set theory.