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Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Nimrod Bar-Am

    1. Sapir College of the Negev, 79165, Israel

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  • Provides a broad, concise, accurate and up-to-date overview of the history of logic (up to and including the early modern period)
  • The first history of logic that explains logical theories as philosophical solutions to fundamental epistemological problems: it is the first extended treatment of the history of logic from the point of view of critical rationalism
  • Challenges previous and prevalent histories of logic
  • Unites the history of logic with the history of epistemology
  • The first extensive discussion of the philosophical and historical importance of extensionalism

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Preliminary Notes

    1. Outline of Preliminary Notes

      Pages 3-13

  6. The Fall of Essentialism

    1. Extensionalism as Exorcism

      Pages 123-127

    2. Mathematical Logic: An Oxymoron

      Pages 129-135

    3. The Last Step

      Pages 137-142
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a single life-span. Philosophers, then, do not see more or know more, and they do not see less or know less. They aim to see less detail and more of the abstract. Their details, if you like, are abstractions. Walking on God’s earth as a pedestrian, as a farmer working his fields or as a passer-by, one’s picture of one’s surroundings is every bit as intelligent as that of the pilot riding the sky. The views of the field are radically different, however. One sees only a specific field and in all lively detail: the exact pattern of the land, or even the exact outline of a given leaf, grasshopper, grain of sand even. Acquaintance with minute detail is not without its price: details may stand in the way of conjuring the big picture. It may be difficult to compare whichever field one happens to be in with far off fields, with respect to their size or shape or any other quality. One may wish to inquire if far off fields were already planted, harvested, or even if they exist. A pedestrian mayfind it hard or even impossible to do so. The pedestrian view contains fine points that the pilot’s map never would, but it does not necessarily contain more information, for it lacks the general context. After all, there are only so many items that one can observe and account for at a single glance, a single map, a single book, a single life-span.

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  • Sapir College of the Negev, 79165, Israel

    Nimrod Bar-Am

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