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The construction of logical space / Agustín Rayo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rayo, Agustín, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space--Philosophy.
- Space.
- Meaning (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 220 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Agustín Rayo offers a novel conception of metaphysical possibility, and a new trivialist philosophy of mathematics.
- Contents:
- I. Main texts. 1. Language and Metaphysics ; 2. Logical Space ; 3. Mathematics ; 4. Cognitive Accomplishment in Logic and Mathematics
- II. Detours. 5. Possibility ; 6. A-worlds and the Dot-Notation ; 7. Paraphrase ; 8. Introducing Mathematical Vocabulary
- III Appendices. A.A Semantics for a Language with the Dot-Notation ; B. If Lewis Can Say It, You Can Too ; C. The Canonical Space of Worlds.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Aug 2, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-105743-6
- 0-19-874798-5
- 0-19-163960-5
- OCLC:
- 922972347
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