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LEADER: 01792cam a22002774a 4500
001 2002070134
003 DLC
005 20070516083446.0
008 020518s2002 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2002070134
020 $a0199246181
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQA8.4$b.F56 2002
082 00 $a510/.1$221
100 1 $aFine, Kit.
245 14 $aThe limits of abstraction /$cKit Fine.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2002.
300 $ax, 203 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-196) and indexes.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: I. Philosophical Introduction 1 -- 1. Truth 3 -- 2. Definition 15 -- 3. Reconceptualization 35 -- 4. Foundations 41 -- 5. The Identity of Abstracts 46 -- II. The Context Principle 55 -- 1. What is the Context Principle? 56 -- 2. Completeness 60 -- 3. The Caesar Problem 68 -- 4. Referential Determinacy 77 -- 5. Predicativity 81 -- 6. The Possible Predicative Content of Hume's Law 90 -- III. The Analysis of Acceptability 101 -- 1. Language and Logic 101 -- 2. Models 105 -- 3. Preliminary Results 107 -- 4. Tenability 114 -- 5. Generation 118 -- 6. Categoricity 122 -- 7. Invariance 138 -- 8. Hyperinflation 156 -- 9. Internalized Proofs 161 -- IV. The General Theory of Abstraction 165 -- 1. The Systems 165 -- 2. Semantics 175 -- 3. Derivations 189 -- 4. Further Work 191.
650 0 $aMathematics$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aAbstraction.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2002070134.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0613/2002070134-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2002070134-b.html