Quine New Foundations And The Philosophy Of Set Theory

Author : Sean Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108604536
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quine, New Foundations, and the Philosophy of Set Theory written by Sean Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quine's set theory, New Foundations, has often been treated as an anomaly in the history and philosophy of set theory. In this book, Sean Morris shows that it is in fact well-motivated, emerging in a natural way from the early development of set theory. Morris introduces and explores the notion of set theory as explication: the view that there is no single correct axiomatization of set theory, but rather that the various axiomatizations all serve to explicate the notion of set and are judged largely according to pragmatic criteria. Morris also brings out the important interplay between New Foundations, Quine's philosophy of set theory, and his philosophy more generally. We see that his early technical work in logic foreshadows his later famed naturalism, with his philosophy of set theory playing a crucial role in his primary philosophical project of clarifying our conceptual scheme and specifically its logical and mathematical components.

Author : Sean Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110715250X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quine, New Foundations, and the Philosophy of Set Theory written by Sean Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an accessible mathematical and philosophical account of Quine's set theory, New Foundations.

Author : Luca Incurvati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108497829
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics written by Luca Incurvati and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a detailed and critical examination of the available conceptions of set and proposes a novel version.

Author : Abraham Adolf Fraenkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abstract Set Theory written by Abraham Adolf Fraenkel and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Potter
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191556432
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Set Theory and its Philosophy written by Michael Potter and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Potter presents a comprehensive new philosophical introduction to set theory. Anyone wishing to work on the logical foundations of mathematics must understand set theory, which lies at its heart. Potter offers a thorough account of cardinal and ordinal arithmetic, and the various axiom candidates. He discusses in detail the project of set-theoretic reduction, which aims to interpret the rest of mathematics in terms of set theory. The key question here is how to deal with the paradoxes that bedevil set theory. Potter offers a strikingly simple version of the most widely accepted response to the paradoxes, which classifies sets by means of a hierarchy of levels. What makes the book unique is that it interweaves a careful presentation of the technical material with a penetrating philosophical critique. Potter does not merely expound the theory dogmatically but at every stage discusses in detail the reasons that can be offered for believing it to be true. Set Theory and its Philosophy is a key text for philosophy, mathematical logic, and computer science.

Author : Willard Van Orman Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674802070
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Set Theory and Its Logic written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extensively revised edition of W. V. Quine’s introduction to abstract set theory and to various axiomatic systematizations of the subject. The treatment of ordinal numbers has been strengthened and much simplified, especially in the theory of transfinite recursions, by adding an axiom and reworking the proofs. Infinite cardinals are treated anew in clearer and fuller terms than before. Improvements have been made all through the book; in various instances a proof has been shortened, a theorem strengthened, a space-saving lemma inserted, an obscurity clarified, an error corrected, a historical omission supplied, or a new event noted.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principia Mathematica written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. Decock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401735751
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trading Ontology for Ideology written by L. Decock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willard VanOrman Quine has probably been the most influential th American philosopher of the 20 century. His work spans over seven decades, and covers many domains in philosophy. He has made major contributions to the fields of logic and set theory, philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, epistemology and metaphysics. Quine's first work in philosophy was in the field of logic. His major contributions are the two set-theoretic systems NF (1936) and ML (1940). 1 These systems were alternatives to the type theory of Principia Mathematica or Zermelo's set theory, and are still being studied by 2 mathematicians. An indirect contribution to the field of logic is his strong resistance to moda110gic. Quine's objectIons to the notions of necessity and analyticity have influenced the development of moda110gic? Quine has had an enormous influence on philosophy of mathematics. When Quine entered philosophy there was a discussion on the foundations of mathematics between the schools of intuitionism, formalism, and conventionalism. Quine soon took issue with Carnap's conventionalism in "Truth by convention,,4 (1936). Quine has never joined one of the other schools, but has added new elements that are the basic ones of the 5 contemporary schools of nominalism, platonism, and structuralism. Quine has long been in the shadow of Benacerraf and Putnam in this field. At the moment there seems to be a renewed interest in Quine's work, and most philosophers explicitly refer to Quine's work.

Author : Willard Van O QUINE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042425
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Set Theory and Its Logic, Revised Edition written by Willard Van O QUINE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extensively revised edition of Mr. Quine's introduction to abstract set theory and to various axiomatic systematizations of the subject. The treatment of ordinal numbers has been strengthened and much simplified, especially in the theory of transfinite recursions, by adding an axiom and reworking the proofs. Infinite cardinals are treated anew in clearer and fuller terms than before. Improvements have been made all through the book; in various instances a proof has been shortened, a theorem strengthened, a space-saving lemma inserted, an obscurity clarified, an error corrected, a historical omission supplied, or a new event noted.

Author : Manuel Bremer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110326108
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universality in Set Theories written by Manuel Bremer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the fate of universality and a universal set in several set theories. The book aims at a philosophical study of ontological and conceptual questions around set theory. Set theories are ontologies. They posit sets and claim that these exhibit the essential properties laid down in the set theoretical axioms. Collecting these postulated entities quantified over poses the problem of universality. Is the collection of the set theoretical entities itself a set theoretical entity? What does it mean if it is, and what does it mean if it is not? To answer these questions involves developing a theory of the universal set. We have to ask: Are there different aspects to universality in set theory, which stand in conflict to each other? May inconsistency be the price to pay to circumvent ineffability? And most importantly: How far can axiomatic ontology take us out of the problems around universality?