The limits of abstraction / Kit Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Kit, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abstraction.

Mathematics--Philosophy.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I. Philosophical Introduction; II. The Context Principle; III. The Analysis of Acceptability; IV. The General Theory of Abstraction; References; Main Index; Index of First Occurrence of Formal Symbols and Definitions

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-196) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03834-1

1-281-77012-4

9786611770129

0-19-156726-4

OCLC:

476260200