The Logic of Concept Expansion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780521807623
Subjects: Logic; Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of science; Philosophy; Philosophy / Logic; Concepts
First sentence: The history of mathematics and the sciences is replete with examples of the expansion of concepts.
Description: "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 logic to include the stretching of concepts, while modifying the principles which apparently block this possibility.

He offers stimulating discussions of the idea of conceptual expansion as a normative process, and of the relation of the conceptual expansion to truth, meaning, reference, ontology, and paradox, and analyzes the views of Kant, Wittgenstein, Godel, and others, paying especially close attention to Frege. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from philosophers (of logic, mathematics, language, and science) to logicians, mathematicians, linguists, and cognitive scientists."--BOOK JACKET.