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Metaphysics, Mathematics, And Meaning

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Klappentext Metaphysics! Mathematics! and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence! non-existence! and fiction; modality and its logic; strict identity! including personal identity; numbers and numerical quantifiers; the philosophical significance of G del's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation. Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader! the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians. Zusammenfassung Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic; strict identity, including personal identity; numbers and numerical quantifiers; the philosophical significance of Gödel's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation. Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Ontology 1: Existence (1987) 2: Nonexistence (1998) 3: Mythical Objects (2002) II. Necessity 4: Modal Logic Kalish-and-Montague Style (1994) 5: Impossible Worlds (1984) 6: An Empire of Thin Air (1988) 7: The Logic of What Might Have Been (1989) III. Identity 8: The fact that x=y (1987) 9: This Side of Paradox (1993) 10: Identity Facts (2003) 11: Personal Identity: What's the Problem? (1995) IV. Philosophy of Mathematics 12: Wholes, Parts, and Numbers (1997) 13: The Limits of Human Mathematics (2001) V. Theory of Meaning and Reference 14: On Content (1992) 15: On Designating (1997) 16: A Problem in the Frege-Church Theory of Sense and Denotation (1993) 17: The Very Possibility of Language (2001) 18: Tense and Intension (2003) 19: Pronouns as Variables (2005) ...

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Authors Nathan Salmon, Nathan U. Salmon
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.02.2006
 
EAN 9780199284719
ISBN 978-0-19-928471-9
No. of pages 419
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
Series Philosophical Papers
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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