Télécharger le livre :  The History of Continua

Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are not composed of points, and that they can only be divided into parts potentially. There is something viscous about the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Continua

Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are not composed of points, and that they can only be divided into parts potentially. There is something viscous about the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Friedrich Waismann

This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann's most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction, as well as...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-09-28
Collection : History of Analytic Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Varieties of Continua

Varieties of Continua explores the development of the idea of the continuous. Hellman and Shapiro begin with two historical episodes. The first is the remarkably rapid transition in the course of the nineteenth century from the ancient Aristotelian view, that a true...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-02-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Varieties of Logic

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Varieties of Logic

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Vagueness in Context

Stewart Shapiro's aim in Vagueness in Context is to develop both a philosophical and a formal, model-theoretic account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a natural language like English. It is a commonplace that the extensions...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2006-01-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The ^AOxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic

Mathematics and logic have been central topics of concern since the dawn of philosophy. Since logic is the study of correct reasoning, it is a fundamental branch of epistemology and a priority in any philosophical system. Philosophers have focused on mathematics as a...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2005-02-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Mathematics

Do numbers, sets, and so forth, exist? What do mathematical statements mean? Are they literally true or false, or do they lack truth values altogether? Addressing questions that have attracted lively debate in recent years, Stewart Shapiro contends that standard realist...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-08-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Foundations without Foundationalism

The central contention of this book is that second-order logic has a central role to play in laying the foundations of mathematics. In order to develop the argument fully, the author presents a detailed development of higher-order logic, including a comprehensive...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1991-09-19

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