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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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| Conservativity, philosophy, logic: Conservativity is the demand not to introduce a new vocabulary, or to examine, when introducing new vocabulary, which conclusions are legitimate. Firstly, new expressions may occur in premisses, but not in true conclusions. See also introduction, introduction rules, extensions, translation._____________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. | |||
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| Brandom, Robert | Conservativity | Brandom | |
| Feyerabend, Paul | Conservativity | Feyerabend | |
| Field, Hartry | Conservativity | Field | |
| Lakatos, Imre | Conservativity | Lakatos | |
| Quine, W.V.O. | Conservativity | Quine | |
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