The logic of concept expansion / Meir Buzaglo.

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Buzaglo, Meir, 1959-

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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 182 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511016352
9780511016356
0511029225
9780511029226
9780511487460
0511487460

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Logic of concept expansion.DDC classification:

160 21

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BC199.C55 B89 2002eb

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Contents:

1. Historical background -- 2. Frege's opposition -- 3. The grammar of constraints -- 4. Expansions as rational procedures -- 5. Implications for concepts -- 6. From words to objects -- 7. Godel's argument -- 8. Implications for thoughts -- 9. "I was led astray by language" -- Epilogue: How do we go on from here?

Review: "Scientists and mathematicians frequently describe the development of their field as a process that includes expansion of concepts. Logicians traditionally deny the possibility of conceptual expansion and the coherence of this description. Meir Buzaglo's innovative study proposes a way of expanding logic to include the stretching of concepts, while modifying the principles which apparently block this possibility. He offers stimulating discussions of the idea of conceptual expansion as a normative process, and of the relation of the conceptual expansion to truth, meaning, reference, ontology, and paradox, and analyzes the views of Kant, Wittgenstein, Godel, and others, paying especially close attention to Frege. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from philosophers (of logic, mathematics, language, and science) to logicians, mathematicians, linguists, and cognitive scientists."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.

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"Scientists and mathematicians frequently describe the development of their field as a process that includes expansion of concepts. Logicians traditionally deny the possibility of conceptual expansion and the coherence of this description. Meir Buzaglo's innovative study proposes a way of expanding logic to include the stretching of concepts, while modifying the principles which apparently block this possibility. He offers stimulating discussions of the idea of conceptual expansion as a normative process, and of the relation of the conceptual expansion to truth, meaning, reference, ontology, and paradox, and analyzes the views of Kant, Wittgenstein, Godel, and others, paying especially close attention to Frege. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from philosophers (of logic, mathematics, language, and science) to logicians, mathematicians, linguists, and cognitive scientists."--Jacket.

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