scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1254497

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Authors Kit Fine

Publication date 18 October 1999

zbMATH Keywords

foundations of abstraction theoryFrege's abstraction principlelimits of abstraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Review text

The paper is devoted to the task of determining both the scope and the limits of abstraction by investigating the philosophical and logical foundations of abstraction theory. It is divided into three parts. The first part provides the philosophical background and motivation. In particular Frege's abstraction principle is considered. In the second part necessary and sufficient conditions for an abstraction principle to be acceptable are proposed and investigated. In the third part a general theory of abstraction within the technical limitations set out earlier is developed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0897.00021].

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