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The limits of abstraction / Kit Fine.

Title: The limits of abstraction / Kit Fine.
Author: Fine, Kit
Publication: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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x, 203 p.; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-196) and indexes.

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committed to retain

Contents

Philosophical Introduction -- Truth -- Definition -- Reconceptualization -- Foundations -- The Identity of Abstracts -- The Context Principle -- What is the Context Principle? -- Completeness -- The Caesar Problem -- Referential Determinacy -- Predicativity -- The Possible Predicative Content of Hume's Law -- The Analysis of Acceptability -- Language and Logic -- Models -- Preliminary Results -- Tenability -- Generation -- Categoricity -- Invariance -- Hyperinflation -- Internalized Proofs -- The General Theory of Abstraction -- The Systems -- Semantics -- Derivations.

ISBN

0199246181

LCCN

^^2002070134

OCLC

49902003

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Harvard Library