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| Hartry Field - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
| Hartry Field (1946), American philosopher. His major works include Science Without Numbers (1980), Realism, Mathematics and Modality (1989), and Truth and the Absence of Fact (2001). His fields of specialization are philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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| Antirealism: (Michael Dummett) the thesis that it has to be possible to be shown through behavior that alternatives to an assumed fact could make a difference. In the case of undecidable sentences such as the number of geese on the Capitol this is not possible._____________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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| Armstrong, David M. | Anti-Realism | Armstrong | |
| Boyd, Richard | Anti-Realism | Boyd | |
| Dummett, Michael E. | Anti-Realism | Dummett | |
| Field, Hartry | Anti-Realism | Field | |
| Fraassen, Bas van | Anti-Realism | Fraassen | |
| Habermas, Jürgen | Anti-Realism | Habermas | |
| Logic Texts | Anti-Realism | Logic Texts | |
| McDowell, John | Anti-Realism | McDowell | |
| Putnam, Hilary | Anti-Realism | Putnam | |
| Rorty, Richard | Anti-Realism | Rorty | |
| Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Anti-Realism | Wittgenstein | |
| Wright, Crispin | Anti-Realism | Wright | |
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