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Quality and concept / George Bealer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bealer, George, author.
- Series:
- Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
- Clarendon library of logic and philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Quality (Philosophy).
- Concepts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 311 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press : New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The aim of this book is to provide a unified theory of properties, relations, and propositions (PRPs). The author explores the two traditional conceptions of PRPs and shows how they can be captured by a single theory.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Introduction
- The call for a theory
- Two traditional conceptions of properties, relations, and propositions
- Preview of the theory of qualities and concepts
- Critical survey of alternate approaches
- Epistemological note. Chapter 1: Intensionality
- Intensional abstraction
- Quantifying-in
- Informal interpretation
- The origin of intensionality in language
- First-order language
- Quine and church on quantifying-in. Chapter 2: Intensional logic
- A formal intensional language
- A new semantic method
- The formal semantics
- A complete logic for the first conception
- A complete logic for the second conception
- A complete logic for modal and intentional matters. Chapter 3: The paradox of analysis
- The paradox
- Difficulties in Church's resolution
- A new resolution. Chapter 4: Predication
- The first-order/high-order controversy
- Expressive power
- The subject/predicate distinction
- The property/function distinction
- The origin of incompleteness in logic
- The logical, semantical, and intentional paradoxes. Chapter 5: Class
- The unnaturalness of sets
- No basis in logic
- The dispensability of sets
- Pure set theory without sets
- Applied set theory without sets. Chapter 6: Number
- A neo-Fregean analysis
- Reply to cirticisms
- The deriviation of mathematics form logic
- Reply to criticisms
- Epistemological issues. Chapter 7: Extensionality and meaning
- The thesis of extensionality
- Semantics
- Pragmatics. Chapter 8: Qualities and concepts
- Qualities, connections, and conditions
- Thoughts and concepts
- Realism and representationalism
- The logic for quantities and concepts
- Correspondence. Chapter 9: Logic
- Truth
- Necessity
- Analyticity. Chapter 10: Mind
- Intentionality
- Experience and the mental
- Consciousness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-168076-1
- 0-19-824428-2
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