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1 online resource (416 pages) |
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Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society ; n.s., v. 11 |
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Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society ; n.s., v. 11.
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I.Reduction; A PROOF OF NOMINALISM:AN EXERCISE IN SUCCESSFUL REDUCTION IN LOGIC JAAKKO HINTIKKA; PRESERVATION OF EMPIRICAL SUCCESS AND INTERTHEORETICAL CORRESPONDENCE: JUSTIFYING REALISM WITHOUT THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT GERHARD SCHURZ; EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY AND RAMSIFICATION, II JEFFREY KETLAND; ELIMINATING MODALITY FROM THE DETERMINISM DEBATE?MODELS VS. EQUATIONS OF PHYSICAL THEORIES THOMAS MÜLLER; DETERMINISTIC VERSUS INDETERMINISTIC DESCRIPTIONS:NOT THAT DIFFERENT AFTER ALL? CHARLOTTE WERNDL; THE "MULTIREALIZATION" OF MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY HOLGER LYRE |
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PESSIMISTIC META-INDUCTION AND THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF SCIENCE1 LUDWIG FAHRBACHWEAK PHYSICALISM AND SPECIAL SCIENCE ONTOLOGY JAMES LADYMAN; ARE NATURAL KINDS REDUCIBLE?ALEXANDER BIRD; ONTIC GENERATION: GETTING EVERYTHING FROM THE BASICS PETER SIMONS; WHAT REDUCTIONISTS BELIEVE IN Christian Kanzian; SUPERVENIENCE AND MORAL REALISM ALISON HILLS; ALTERNATIVE REDUCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC DEONTIC LOGICS ALBERT J.J. ANGLBERGER; II.Abstraction; THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF ABSTRACTION* CRISPIN WRIGHT |
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HOW ABSTRACTION WORKS LEON HORSTEN and HANNES LEITGEBTHIN OBJECTS ØYSTEIN LINNEBO; RUSSELL'S MANY POINTS THOMAS MORMANN; FROM DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTIONS TO SETS OF ORDERED PAIRS1 BERNARD LINSKY; DIAGONALIZATION, THE LIAR PARADOX, AND THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE FORMAL SYSTEM PRESENTED IN THE APPENDIX TO FREGE'S GRUNDGESETZE: VOLUME II ROY T COOK; A PROBLEM AND A SOLUTION FOR NEO-FREGEANISM* MICHAEL GABBAY; ED ZALTA'S VERSION OF NEO-LOGICISM -A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT Philip A. Ebert |
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REPLY TO P. EBERT AND M. ROSSBERG'S FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT EDWARD N. ZALTAIII.Analysis; ON THE BENEFITS OF AREDUCTION OF MODAL PREDICATES TO MODAL OPERATORS VOLKER HALBACH; CALCULI OF INDIVIDUALS AND SOME EXTENSIONS: AN OVERVIEW* KARL-GEORG NIEBERGALL; DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS: LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND ELIMINATION NORBERT GRATZL; FROM LANGUAGE GAMES TO SOCIAL SOFTWARE ROHIT PARIKH; ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GAMES IN EXTENSIVE FORM AND GAMES IN STRATEGIC FORM SIMON M. HUTTEGGER; TWO ACCOUNTS OF SIMILARITY COMPARED LIEVEN DECOCK and IGOR DOUVEN |
| Summary |
Philosophers often have tried to either reduce ""disagreeable"" objects or concepts to (more) acceptable objects or concepts. Reduction is regarded attractive by those who subscribe to an ideal of ontological parsimony. But the topic is not just restricted to traditional metaphysics or ontology. In the philosophy of mathematics, abstraction principles, such as Hume's principle, have been suggested to support a reconstruction of mathematics by logical means only. In the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, the logical analysis of language has long been regarded to be the domina |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Logic -- Congresses
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Reductionism -- Congresses
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Abstraction -- Congresses
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Analysis (Philosophy) -- Congresses
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Abstraction
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Analysis (Philosophy)
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Logic
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Reductionism
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Leitgeb, Hannes
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| ISBN |
9783110328875 |
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3110328879 |
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3868380477 |
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9783868380477 |
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3110328577 |
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9783110328578 |
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