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 l
The logic of concept expansion
โ Scribed by Meir Buzaglo
- Book ID
- 127396967
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 552 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
- City
- Cambridge, U.K.; New York
- ISBN
- 0511016352
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โฆ Synopsis
This book studies the important issue of the possibility of conceptual change--a possibility traditionally denied by logicians--from the perspective of philosophy of mathematics. The author also looks at aspects of language, and his conclusions have implications for a theory of concepts, truth and thought. The book will appeal to readers in the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and the philosophy of mind and language.
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In studying a civilization different from our own we are prone to impose the conceptual framework and prejudices of our own tradition. The study of Indian logic by Western scholars, including Indian scholars who accepted certain tenets of Western logic, forms no exception. S. C. Vidyabhusana, the fi