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The Limits of Abstraction (Paperback)
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The Limits of Abstraction (Paperback)
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What is abstraction? To what extent can it account for the
existence and identity of abstract objects? And to what extent can
it be used as a foundation for mathematics? Kit Fine provides
rigorous and systematic answers to these questions along the lines
proposed by Frege, in a book concerned both with the technical
development of the subject and with its philosophical
underpinnings.
Fine proposes an account of what it is for a principle of
abstraction to be acceptable, and these acceptable principles are
exactly characterized. A formal theory of abstraction is developed
and shown to be capable of providing a foundation for both
arithmetic and analysis. Fine argues that the usual attempts to see
principles of abstraction as forms of stipulative definition have
been largely unsuccessful but there may be other, more promising,
ways of vindicating the various forms of contextual definition.
The Limits of Abstraction breaks new ground both technically and
philosophically, and will be essential reading for all who work on
the philosophy of mathematics.
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