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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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| 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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