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Thin Objects:An Abstractionist Account '18

Linnebo, Øystein  著

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価格 \17,182(税込)         
発行年月 2018年06月
出版社/提供元
Oxford University Press
出版国 イギリス
言語 英語
媒体 冊子
装丁 hardcover
ページ数/巻数 256 p.
ジャンル 洋書/人文科学/哲学・思想/認識論・存在論・自由意志論
ISBN 9780199641314
商品コード 1026544354
本の性格 学術書
新刊案内掲載月 2018年05月
商品URLhttps://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=1026544354

内容

Are there objects that are " in the sense that not very much is required for their existence? Frege famously thought so. He claimed that the equinumerosity of the knives and the forks suffices for there to be objects such as the number of knives and the number of forks, and for these objects to be identical. The idea of thin objects holds great philosophical promise but has proved hard to explicate. Oystein Linnebo aims to do so by drawing on some Fregean ideas. First, to be an object is to be a possible referent of a singular term. Second, singular reference can be achieved by providing a criterion of identity for the would-be referent. The second idea enables a form of easy reference and thus, via the first idea, also a form of easy being. Paradox is avoided by imposing a predicativity restriction on the criteria of identity. But the abstraction based on a criterion of identity may result in an expanded domain. By iterating such expansions, a powerful account of dynamic abstraction is developed. The result is a distinctive approach to ontology. Abstract objects such as numbers and sets are demystified and allowed to exist alongside more familiar physical objects. And Linnebo also offers a novel approach to set theory which takes seriously the idea that sets are " successively.