Meir Buzaglo

The Logic of Concept Expansion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative study offers stimulating discussions of the relation of conceptual expansion to truth, meaning, reference, ontology and paradox.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780521041058
• ISBN-10: 0521041058
• Artikelnr.: 23066762

Autorenporträt

Meir Buzaglo is Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Historical background
2. Frege's opposition
3. The grammar of constraints
4. Expansions as rational procedures
5. Implications for concepts
6. From words to objects
7. Gödel's argument
8. Implications for thoughts
9. 'I was led astray by language'
Epilogue. How do we go on from here?
References
Index.

Rezensionen

'The book provides interesting philosophical, mainly historical, views on the dynamics of conceptual changes which fall under the considered domain of concept expansion.' Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete Mathematics Abstracts