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Themes from Wittgenstein and Quine /

The volume contains new essays on Wittgenstein and on Quine. Six essays discuss crucial aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics: Wittgenstein's ontological quietism in relation to the realism vs. anti-realism debate, his thesis that mathematical propositions are rules of gramma...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Büttner, Kai (Editor ), Demont, Florian (Editor ), Dolby, David, 1979- (Editor ), Schlegel, Anne-Katrin (Editor ), Greimann, Dirk (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi B.V., 2014.
Colección:Grazer philosophische Studien ; 89.
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  • THEMES FROM WITTGENSTEIN AND QUINE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Special Topic I WITTGENSTEIN; Guest Editors Kai BÜTTNER, Florian DEMONT, David DOLBY, Anne-Katrin SCHLEGEL; Introduction; Realism, Anti-Realism, Quietism: Wittgenstein's Stance; Mathematical Propositions as Rules of Grammar; How Arithmetic is about Numbers. A Wittgensteinian Perspective; Wittgenstein on Equinumerosity and Surveyability; Wittgenstein on Formulae; Brouwer versus Wittgenstein on the Infinite and the Law of Excluded Middle; Special Topic II QUINE; Guest Editor Dirk GREIMANN; Introduction; Significance in Quine.
  • Are there Empirical Cases of Indeterminacyof Translation?Some Critical Remarks on Quine'sThought Experiment of Radical Translation; A Tension in Quine's Naturalistic Ontology of Semantics; In Defense of Quine's Ostrich Nominalism; Quinean Worlds: Possibilist Ontology in an Extensionalist Framework.