JAK POJMENOVAT REÁLNÉ ČÍSLO?

• Authors: Vojtěch Kolman

Title variants

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How to name a real number?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The article deals with Cantor’s diagonal argument and its alleged philosophical consequences such as that (1) there are more reals than integers and, hence, (2) that some of the reals must be independent of language because the totality of words and sentences is always countable. The author´s claim is that the main flaw of the argument for the existence of non-nameable (hence unrecognizable) objects or truths lies in a very superficial understanding of what a name or representation actually is. The article concludes by offering solutions to some famous semantic paradoxes based on the diagonal construction as corroboration for this claim.

Keywords

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MEANINGFUL NAME; REAL NUMBER; PARADOX; CANTOR GEORG

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 283 - 301

Contributors

author

Vojtěch Kolman

• Ústav filosofie a religionistiky, Filozofická fakulta, Karlova universita, nám. J. Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic