Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fetzer, James H[Herausgeber]
• Shatz, David[Herausgeber]
• Schlesinger, George N[Herausgeber]

Titel

Definitions and Definability: Philosophical Perspectives

Ist Teil von

• Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodolgy, and Philosophy of Science : 216

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1991

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Aspects of the Theory of Definition -- I / Preliminary Considerations -- Real and Nominal Definitions -- Primitive Concepts: Habits, Conventions, and Laws -- II / Definitional Desiderata -- Vagueness and the Desiderata for Definition -- Definition in a Quinean World -- III / Formal Developments -- Definitions and Definability -- Towards a General Theory of Identifiability -- IV / Epistemic Dimensions -- Epistemic Terms and the Aims of Epistemology -- Rational Definitions and Defining Rationality -- V / Specialized Conceptions -- Idealized Definitions in Physics and Idealized Dispositions -- Inverted Definitions and Their Uses -- VI / Disciplinary Conceptions -- Definitions in Law -- Defining the Divine -- Philosophical Analyses: An Explanation and Defense -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects