The Construction of Logical Space
by
Agustin Rayo
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199662622
ISBN-13
9780199662623
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 27th, 2013
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
420 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 21.80 x 1.90 cms
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Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. Agustín Rayo argues that this is shaped by acceptance or rejection of 'just is'-statements: e.g. 'to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O'. He offers a novel conception of metaphysical possibility, and a new trivialist philosophy of mathematics.
Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. In The Construction of Logical Space Agustín Rayo defends the idea that one''s conception of logical space is shaped by one''s acceptance or rejection of ''just is''-statements: statements like ''to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O'', or ''for the number of the dinosaurs to be zero just is for there to be no dinosaurs''. The resulting picture is used to articulate a conception of metaphysical possibility that does not depend on a reduction of the modal to the non-modal, and to develop a trivialist philosophy of mathematics, according to which the truths of pure mathematics have trivial truth-conditions.
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