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UNINA9910966352503321 |
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Titolo |
Truth, reference and realism / / edited by Zsolt Novak and Andras Simonyi |
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Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-003-72349-7 |
1-283-29289-0 |
9786613292896 |
1-4416-9799-3 |
963-9776-92-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Truth |
Reference (Philosophy) |
Realism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Papers ... presented by the authors at the first Oxford-Budapest conference at Central European University in Budapest, 28-30 April 2005." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""The Reality of Mathematics and the Case of Set Theory""; ""Conceptualism and Knowledge of Logic: A Budget of Problems""; ""What is Logic?""; ""Absolute Identity and Absolute Generality""; ""The Refutation of Expressivism""; ""Benacerraf's Problem, Abstract Objects and Intellect""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The volume presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005. The problem addressed by the conference, famously formulated by Paul Benacerraf in a paper on Mathematical Truth, was how to understand truth in the semantics of discourses about abstract domains whose objects and properties cannot be observed by sense perception. The papers of the volume focus on this semantic issue in four major fields: |
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