Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

PL EN


2008 | 17 | 4(68) | 281-293

Article title

W.V.O. Quine's Philosophy of Mathematics Confronted with Henkin and Boolos Quantifiers

Authors

Title variants

Languages of publication

PL

Abstracts

EN
The article contains a brief presentation of Quine's arguments in favor of metamathematical realism and raises the problem of the dependence of ontological commitments of a theory on 'ideological' assumptions concerning the range of logical concepts. The problem is discussed by reference to Henkin and Boolos quantifiers. If these quantifiers are chosen and introduced as semantically primitive terms, fully understandable without recourse to set theoretical semantics and paraphrases presented as logical sentences with function variables and set variables, the resulting theory makes different ontological commitments from those that are made by Quine. The difference is illustrated by discussing a theory proposed by Hellman

Year

Volume

17

Issue

Pages

281-293

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

author
  • K. Wojtowicz, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3, 00-047 Warszawa, Poland

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
09PLAAAA064115

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.41e5fe9d-d24e-370c-a08d-438d98845bd7
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.