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Nimrod Bar-Am 
Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic 

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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 may find 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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Acknowledgments, Abstract, Introduction. In praise of shallowness: a methodological credo Part 1: Preliminary notes Part 2: Setting the scene: some notes on the pre-history of logic Part 3: Aristotle’s logic: the rise of essentialism Part 4: Essentialism besieged Part 5: The fall of essentialism Notes, Bibliography, Index of Names, Index of Subjects
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 172 ● ISBN 9781402081682 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Age 02-99 years ● Publisher Springer Netherland ● City Dordrecht ● Country NL ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2148629 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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