A Strengthening of the Caesar Problem.
The neo-Fregeans have argued that definition by abstraction allows us to introduce abstract concepts such as direction and number in terms of equivalence relations such as parallelism between lines and one-one correspondence between concepts. This paper argues that definition by abstraction suffers...
| Published in: | Erkenntnis Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 123 - 137 |
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Jul2011
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