Thin Objects: An Abstractionist Account 1st Edition Øystein Linnebo

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 019255896X
• ISBN-13: 9780192558961
• Author: Oystein Linnebo

Are there objects that are “thin” in the sense that not very much is required for their existence? Frege famously thought so. He claimed that the equinumerosity of the knives and the forks suffices for there to be objects such as the number of knives and the number of forks, and for these objects to be identical. The idea of thin objects holds great philosophical promise but has proved hard to explicate.

Table contents:

Part I: Essentials

1: In search of thin objects

2: Thin objects via criteria of identity

3: Dynamic abstraction

Part II: Comparisons

4: Abstraction and the question of symmetry

5: Unbearable lightness of being

6: Predicative vs. impredicative abstraction

7: The context principle

Part III: Details

8: Reference by abstraction

9: The Julius Caesar problem

10: The natural numbers

11: The question of platonism

12: Dynamic set theory

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