Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Philosophical Papers, Volume I

Nathan Salmon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

436 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-928471-9 (ISBN)

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Brings together Nathan Salmon's 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 Godel's Incompleteness theorems; and semantic content and designation.

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 Including a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction to orient the reader, the volume offers rich and varied sustenance for philosophers and logicians.

I. ONTOLOGY; II. NECESSITY; III. IDENTITY; IV. PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS; V. THEORY OF MEANING AND REFERENCE

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2005
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 233 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-19-928471-7 / 0199284717
ISBN-13	978-0-19-928471-9 / 9780199284719
Zustand	Neuware