Titlebook: Dummett on Abstract Objects; George Duke Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012 knowledge.object.ob

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Introduction,cts is possible and the ground of the distinction between abstract and concrete entities. When the problem of abstract objects is stated with this generality, it could arguably be regarded as a long-standing philosophical concern, just as much present in Plato’s theory of forms and scholastic debate

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Psychologism and Objectivity,psychologistic approaches to the philosophy of arithmetic. This rejection accordingly suggests an alternative construal of the status of mathematical objects as non spatio-temporal, yet objective. In the first section of the current chapter I engage in a detailed consideration of Husserl’s early phi

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The Concrete-Abstract Distinction,e reference for abstract singular terms. Once he has abandoned a strong reading of the context principle, in fact, Dummett’s strategy to derive answers to traditional epistemological and metaphysical problems through the theory of meaning appears to be placed in question. By acknowledging that the i

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Tolerant Reductionism, context principle to legitimize a robust notion of reference for abstract singular terms. The rationale for Dummett’s rejection of a strong interpretation of the context principle as a thesis about reference is set out in his critique of the neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics found in the work o

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Introduction,t’ is nonetheless a recent addition to the philosophical lexicon concomitant with the application of new methods of logical analysis to traditional metaphysical problems. This suggests that contemporary debates about abstract entities reflect a significant conceptual shift rather than a superficial