The Theory of Logical Types

ISBN-13: 9780415616270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 156 str.

Late Irving M. Copi

Opis

This volume provides a brief historical account of the 'Theory of Logical Types' and describes the problems that gave rise to it, its various different formulations (simple and ramified), the difficulties connected with each, and the criticisms that have been directed against it.

Spis treści

Part One: The Paradoxes  1. Logical Paradoxes  2. Semantic Paradoxes  3. Classification of the Paradoxes  4. Importance of the Paradoxes. Part Two: The Simple Theory of Types  5. Informal Exposition of Simple Type Theory  6. Formalization of the Simple Theory of Types  7. An Alternative Formulation of Simple Type Theory  8. Criticisms of the Simple Theory of Types. Part Three: The Ramified Theory of Types.  9. The Vicious Circle Principle  10. The Hierarchy of Propositions  11. Simple Type Theory as Part of Ramified Type Theory  12. Hierarchies of Orders  13. The Axiom of Reducibility  14. Criticisms of the Axiom of Reducibility  15. Criticisms of the Ramified Theory of Types  16. An Alternative Resolution of the Semantic Paradoxes.

O autorze

Irving Copi