“The Limits of Abstraction”
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“The Limits of Abstraction” is a major work in contemporary philosophy by Kit Fine that critically examines and reformulates the use of abstraction principles in the foundations of mathematics and logic.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: “The Limits of Abstraction” Context triple: [Kit Fine, hasWritten, “The Limits of Abstraction”]
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Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
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Abstrutions
Abstrutions is a track by the jazz collective Members, Don’t Git Weary, known for their spiritually infused, avant-garde approach to improvisation.
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“Truth and Meaning”
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"About General Aesthetic"
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“On What There Is”
“On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: “The Limits of Abstraction” Target entity description: “The Limits of Abstraction” is a major work in contemporary philosophy by Kit Fine that critically examines and reformulates the use of abstraction principles in the foundations of mathematics and logic.
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A.
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions is a critical study by Maggie Nelson that examines the overlooked contributions of women poets and artists associated with the New York School.
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B.
Abstrutions
Abstrutions is a track by the jazz collective Members, Don’t Git Weary, known for their spiritually infused, avant-garde approach to improvisation.
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C.
“Truth and Meaning”
“Truth and Meaning” is a seminal philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that develops a theory of meaning grounded in the conditions for a sentence’s truth.
-
D.
"About General Aesthetic"
"About General Aesthetic" is a section of Wassily Kandinsky’s influential theoretical treatise *Concerning the Spiritual in Art* that outlines his foundational ideas on the nature and principles of aesthetics in modern art.
-
E.
“On What There Is”
“On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| aimsAt |
clarifying the legitimacy of abstraction principles
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providing constraints on acceptable abstraction principles ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fregean abstraction
NERFINISHED
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neo-logicism ⓘ |
| author | Kit Fine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributesTo | discussion of abstraction in contemporary analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| critiques | traditional abstractionist programs ⓘ |
| discusses |
Frege’s Theorem
NERFINISHED
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Hume’s Principle NERFINISHED ⓘ criteria of identity ⓘ equivalence relations ⓘ logicality of abstraction principles ⓘ ontological commitment ⓘ |
| examines | use of abstraction principles ⓘ |
| field |
logic
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philosophy ⓘ philosophy of logic ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
foundations of logic
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foundations of mathematics ⓘ |
| genre |
analytic philosophy
NERFINISHED
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
debates about mathematical ontology
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debates about the nature of numbers ⓘ neo-Fregean approaches to arithmetic ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gottlob Frege
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logicism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
abstraction principles
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philosophical logic ⓘ philosophy of mathematics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed formal analysis of abstraction schemas
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influence on contemporary neo-logicist literature ⓘ systematic treatment of abstraction principles ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| proposes | reformulation of abstraction principles ⓘ |
| usedIn |
advanced courses in philosophy of mathematics
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graduate seminars in logic and metaphysics ⓘ |
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