The Logic of Concept Expansion

ISBN-13: 9780521807623 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 196 str.

Meir Buzaglo

Opis

This book studies the important issue of the possibility of conceptual change--a possibility traditionally denied by logicians--from the perspective of philosophy of mathematics. The author also looks at aspects of language, and his conclusions have implications for a theory of concepts, truth and thought. The book will appeal to readers in the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and the philosophy of mind and language.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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.