The logic of concept expansion / Meir Buzaglo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buzaglo, Meir, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Concepts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The operation of developing a concept is a common procedure in mathematics and in natural science, but has traditionally seemed much less possible to philosophers and, especially, logicians. Meir Buzaglo's innovative study proposes a way of expanding logic to include the stretching of concepts, while modifying the principles which block this possibility. He offers stimulating discussions of the idea of conceptual expansion as a normative process, and of the relation of conceptual expansion to truth, meaning, reference, ontology and paradox, and analyzes the views of Kant, Wittgenstein, Godel, and others, paying especially close attention to Frege. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from philosophers (of logic, mathematics, language, and science) to logicians, mathematicians, linguists, and cognitive scientists.

Contents:

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. Godel's argument

8. Implications for thoughts

9. "I was led astray by language"

Epilogue: How do we go on from here?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12461-1

0-521-04105-8

0-511-32883-4

1-280-41932-6

0-511-15564-6

0-511-17534-5

0-511-48746-0

0-511-04451-8

OCLC:

70720595