01496nam a2200229Ia 4500 226209 226209 308006 20170531132521.0 041212s2002 enk b 001 0 eng 2002070134 9780199533633 PR-PUCPR spa BEA QA8.4 .F56 2002 510/.1 21 Fine, Kit. 223788 The limits of abstraction Kit Fine. Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2002. x, 203 p. 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-196) and indexes. Machine generated contents note: I. Philosophical Introduction 1 -- 1. Truth 3 -- 2. Definition 15 -- 3. Reconceptualization 35 -- 4. Foundations 41 -- 5. The Identity of Abstracts 46 -- II. The Context Principle 55 -- 1. What is the Context Principle? 56 -- 2. Completeness 60 -- 3. The Caesar Problem 68 -- 4. Referential Determinacy 77 -- 5. Predicativity 81 -- 6. The Possible Predicative Content of Hume's Law 90 -- III. The Analysis of Acceptability 101 -- 1. Language and Logic 101 -- 2. Models 105 -- 3. Preliminary Results 107 -- 4. Tenability 114 -- 5. Generation 118 -- 6. Categoricity 122 -- 7. Invariance 138 -- 8. Hyperinflation 156 -- 9. Internalized Proofs 161 -- IV. The General Theory of Abstraction 165 -- 1. The Systems 165 -- 2. Semantics 175 -- 3. Derivations 189 -- 4. Further Work 191. Mathematics Philosophy. 132758 Local Abstraction. 48597 Local 6 QA 8.4.F56 0 0 lcc 0 QA00084 F56 02002 0 beal 92844 4 4 33 2016-05-27 Amazon 29.17 493496 0 QA 8.4.F56 2002 91000000026567 2016-05-27 00:00:00 0 39.17 r:308006 6