A Subject With No Object
Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics
Burgess, John P. Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Rosen, Gideon Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Print publication date: 1999 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825012-8







doi:10.1093/0198250126.003.0006

John P. Burgess
Gideon Rosen
Abstract: Indicates very briefly a variety of further strategies, beginning with modifications and combinations of the three that were discussed in the preceding three chapters. The more exotic strategies are those based on so-called substitutional quantifiers, or predicate-functor logic, and on dialectical logic, which admits inconsistent objects and incomplete objects. Argues that these exotic strategies are philosophically problematic in a way the strategies considered earlier were not.

Keywords: dialectical logic, incomplete objects, inconsistent objects, predicate-functor logic, substitutional quantifiers,

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Part I Philosophical and Technical Background
Part II Three Major Strategies
Part III Further Strategies and a Provisional Assessment