10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOMINALISTIC»
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nominalistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Subject with No Object: Strategies for
Nominalistic ...
This book cuts through a host of technicalities that have obscured previous discussions of these projects, and presents clear, concise accounts of a dozen strategies for nominalistic interpretation of mathematics, thus equipping the reader ...
John P. Burgess, Gideon Rosen, 1999
2
Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics
In short, then, what I will be arguing in sub-section 3.2 is that nominalistic
scientific realism is a coherent view, or perhaps a tenable or sensible view. Now,
I will not argue that nominalistic scientific realism is true, because I am not trying
to ...
3
Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism
includes only nominalistic statements. We could then avail ourselves of any (
good) mathematical theory M for then “it might be much easier to see” N's
nominalistic consequences – thus “facilitating deductions” from N to this
consequences ...
Marco Panza, Andrea Sereni, 2013
4
The Nature of Properties: Nominalism, Realism, and Trope Theory
The terminology of a system is irrelevant to the classification of the system as
nominalistic or platonistic hy the criterion I have explained. So long as a system
admits no two distinct entities having exactly the same atoms, it is nominalistic no
...
5
Philosophies of the Sciences: A Guide
functions, and numbers; they are called nominalistic theories (Field 1989, 58).
And it is precisely because mathematics is conservative that, despite being false,
it can be useful. Mathematics is useful because it shortens our derivations that do
...
6
Collected Papers on Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and ...
In fact, an apriori argument purporting to provide a logical refutation of the
contrary view appears to be simply out of the question. Nominalistic as well as
platonistic systems can be free from contradiction (for Platonism this holds,
however, only ...
7
Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology
These nominalistic surrogates are formulated with reference to space-time points
and regions only, but they clearly make the same structural statements as the
original mathematical prototypes. For Field, the truth-values of the surrogate ...
8
Philosophy of Mathematics
1. We begin with a physical theory T expressed using mathematics. We define a
nominalistic axiom system S any model of which is homomorphically
embeddable in R4. This is equivalent to requiring that S reduce to TMR"): S 5 513
(R4). 2.
9
The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Philosophy
In his defense of fictionalism, Mark Balaguer suggests that the role of
mathematical posits in our scientific theories is to enable us to express an
ultimately nominalistic content (the claim that the physical world is the way it
would have to be for ...
Barry Dainton, Howard Robinson, 2013
10
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
The second aspect of Field's program is to show that the nominalistic theories are
sufficient for attaining the scientific goal of determining truths about the physical
universe (i.e., accounting for observations). Let P be a nominalistic scientific ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOMINALISTIC»
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REP. JOE PITTS: Of democracy and tolerance
... merely a positivistic social construction or actually a legal reflection of a pre-existent reality, whether it is a nominalistic, meaningless concept ... «The Mercury, Jul 15»
Roger Olson's 'Arminian Theology'– Part Eight
BEN: On p. 89 you talk about the idea of nominalistic voluntarism, which is to say the idea that God is free to do anything he chooses to do, ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
Roger Olson's 'Arminian Theology'– Part Six
Furthermore, I do say that strong, high Calvinism is internally incoherent UNLESS it is simply based on nominalistic voluntarism in the doctrine ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
Nkrumah Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (1)
This is to circumscribe any serious questions posed by the aversion of nominalistic extrapolations, in which the perception of forced ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
I Thought I Knew How Christians Should Act Toward Hollywood …
... pain that needs a real Savior, Jesus Christ) and an anti-Christian, nominalistic ontology (a nonmaterial, great-thought maya world where all is ... «Charisma News, Apr 14»
The Trouble With Nominalism
The nominalistic turn in Western thought made every day Holy Saturday. The universe lost the intelligibility that Christians had long attributed to ... «The American Conservative, Apr 14»
Cobourg Horizons of Friendship homes and garden...
Inside, the house has been brought into the 21st century with dynamic visual impact and nominalistic design and decor. • Birds' Nest Garden ... «Northumberland News, Jul 13»
Aaron Sorkin's Millennial Problem in 'The Newsroom'
Will's repeated insistences that he is a registered Republican, which by season's end remains nothing other than nominalistic, is really just a ... «PopMatters, Jun 13»
Keti Chukhrov Soviet Material Culture and Socialist Ethics in …
... in Western conceptualism, and in the formalist avant-garde, the work of art is immanent in its “body,” in its objective represented appearance: it is nominalistic. «E-Flux, Nov 11»
On Locke and Aquinas: Reason, Will, and Law
For Sam this is in microcosm the problem with Locke, as he embodies the voluntaristic and therefore nominalistic proclivities of Protestantism, ... «Acton Institute, Sep 11»
