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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823841103321

Autore

Frascolla Pasquale <1952->

Titolo

Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics / / Pasquale Frascolla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

1-134-97436-1

1-134-97437-X

1-283-24106-4

9786613241061

0-203-02246-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

510/.1

Soggetti

Mathematics - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 The Philosophy of Arithmetic of the Tractatus; Preliminaries; Systematic exposition; The ""knowledge "" of forms: vision and calculation; Foundations of mathematics (I); 2 Verificationism and Its Limits: The intermediate phase (1929-33); Introduction; Finite cardinal numbers: the arithmetic of strokes; Mathematical propositions; The mathematical infinite; Foundations of mathematics (II); 3 From Facts to Concepts: The later writings on mathematics (1934-44); The crisis of verificationism: rule-following

Mathematical proofs as paradigmsThe problem of strict finitism; Wittgenstein's quasi-revisionism; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Wittgenstein's role was vital in establishing mathematics as one of this century's principal areas of philosophic inquiry. In this book, the three phases of Wittgenstein's reflections on mathematics are viewed as a progressive whole, rather than as separate entities. Frascolla builds up a systematic construction of Wittgenstein's representation of the role of arithmetic in the theory of logical operations. He also presents a new interpretation of Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations - the `community view of internal relations'.