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Max Black (1909-1988), Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher. His major works include The Nature of Mathematics (1933), Language and Philosophy (1949), and Problems of Analysis (1954). His fields of specialization were philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of science.
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Fiction: a counterfactual assumption or history. In philosophy, it is the question how a truth value can be attributed to fictional statements. See also idealization, as if, truth, facts, counterfactuals, theories, theoretical entities, existence, ontology._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
Author | Item | More concepts for author | |
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Black, Max | Fictions | Black | |
Cartwright, Nancy | Fictions | Cartwright | |
Field, Hartry | Fictions | Field | |
Gadamer, Hans-Georg | Fictions | Gadamer | |
Gärdenfors, Peter | Fictions | Gärdenfors | |
Geach, Peter | Fictions | Geach | |
Habermas, Jürgen | Fictions | Habermas | |
Hume, David | Fictions | Hume | |
Kant, Immanuel | Fictions | Kant | |
Kelsen, Hans | Fictions | Kelsen | |
Lewis, David K. | Fictions | Lewis | |
Logic Texts | Fictions | Logic Texts | |
Millikan, Ruth | Fictions | Millikan | |
Prior, Arthur N. | Fictions | Prior | |
Weizenbaum, Joseph | Fictions | Weizenbaum | |
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