Talking About Numbers

Easy Arguments for Mathematical Realism

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Buch | Softcover
188 Seiten
2016 | 2016
Klostermann, Vittorio (Verlag)
978-3-465-03879-5 (ISBN)

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Talking About Numbers - Katharina Felka
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For thousands of years philosophers have discussed the question of whether numbers exist. Surprisingly, there are very easy arguments from commonly accepted truths that seem to decide the question. For instance, it is a commonly accepted truth that Obama has two hands. If Obama has two hands, then the number of Obama's hands is two, and, thus, numbers exist. If such arguments were convincing, ontological disputes about the existence of numbers could be decided simply by pointing to Obama's hands! The book offers a defense of the profoundness of traditional ontological questions by showing that the easy arguments in question are based on false linguistic assumptions. To do so it engages with recent linguistic research and develops analyses of the pertinent sentences that are of interest far beyond the metaontological question at hand.

Katharina Felka lehrt am Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Philosophie an der Universität Zürich.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.8.2016
Reihe/Serie Studies in Theoretical Philosophy ; 3
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 326 g
Einbandart kartoniert
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Schlagworte Analytische Philosophie • Analytische Philosophie und logischer Positivismus • Argumentation • Epistemologie und Erkenntnistheorie • Linguistik • Logik • Mathematik • Metaphysik und Ontologie • Ontologie • Philosophie • Philosophie der Mathematik • Sprachphilosophie • Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik • Zahl / Ziffer
ISBN-10 3-465-03879-7 / 3465038797
ISBN-13 978-3-465-03879-5 / 9783465038795
Zustand Neuware
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