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Bad company tamed
pp. 371-391
Abstrakt
The neo-Fregean project of basing mathematics on abstraction principles faces “the bad company problem,” namely that a great variety of unacceptable abstraction principles are mixed in among the acceptable ones. In this paper I propose a new solution to the problem, based on the idea that individuation must take the form of a well-founded process. A surprising aspect of this solution is that every form of abstraction on concepts is permissible and that paradox is instead avoided by restricting what concepts there are.
Publication details
Published in:
Linnebo Øystein (2009) The bad company problem. Synthese 170 (3).
Seiten: 371-391
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9265-7
Referenz:
Linnebo Øystein (2009) „Bad company tamed“. Synthese 170 (3), 371–391.