The Limits of Abstraction by Kit

Description: What is abstraction? To what extent can it account for the existence and identity of abstract objects? And to what extent can it be used as a foundation for mathematics? Kit Fine provides rigorous and systematic answers to these questions along the lines proposed by Frege, in a book concerned both with the technical development of the subject and with its philosophical underpinnings.Fine proposes an account of what it is for a principle of abstraction to be acceptable, and these acceptable principles are exactly characterized. A formal theory of abstraction is developed and shown to be capable of providing a foundation for both arithmetic and analysis. Fine argues that the usual attempts to see principles of abstraction as forms of stipulative definition have been largely unsuccessful but that there may be other, more promising ways of vindicating the various forms of contextual definition.The Limits of Abstraction breaks new ground both technically and philosophically, and is essential reading for all those working on the philosophy of mathematics.

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EAN: 9780199246182

UPC: 9780199246182

ISBN: 9780199246182

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Book Title: The Limits of Abstraction by Kit

Number of Pages: 216 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Limits of Abstraction

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2002

Item Height: 0.7 in

Subject: History & Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Logic

Item Weight: 12.8 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology

Item Length: 8.5 in

Author: Kit Fine

Item Width: 5.4 in

Format: Hardcover