The construction of logical space:
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Main Author: Rayo, Agustín (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013
Edition:1st ed
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
I. Main texts. 1. Language and Metaphysics ; 2. Logical Space ; 3. Mathematics ; 4. Cognitive Accomplishment in Logic and Mathematics -- II. Detours. 5. Possibility ; 6. A-worlds and the Dot-Notation ; 7. Paraphrase ; 8. Introducing Mathematical Vocabulary -- III Appendices. A. A Semantics for a Language with the Dot-Notation ; B. If Lewis Can Say It, You Can Too ; C. The Canonical Space of Worlds
Agustín Rayo offers a novel conception of metaphysical possibility, and a new trivialist philosophy of mathematics
"Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. In The Construction of Logical Space Agustin Rayo defends the idea that one's conception of logical space is shaped by one's acceptance or rejection of "just is"-statements: statements like "to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O," or "for the number of the dinosaurs to be zero just is for there to be no dinosaurs." The resulting picture is used to articulate a conception of metaphysical possibility that does not depend on a reduction of the modal to the non-modal, and to develop a trivialist philosophy of mathematics, according to which the truths of pure mathematics have trivial truth-conditions."--Publisher's website
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 220 p.)
ISBN:0191639605
0199662622
9780191639609
9780199662623

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