In good company? On Hume's principle and the assignment of numbers to infinite concepts

DOI10.1017/S1755020314000471MaRDI QIDQ5259728zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paolo Mancosu

Publication date 29 June 2015

Published in The Review of Symbolic Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020314000471

zbMATH Keywords

Hume's principleinfinite concepts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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• A justification for the quantificational Hume principle
• Frege on the introduction of real and complex numbers by abstraction and cross-sortal identity claims

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