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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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Impredicativeness: Impredicatives are concepts which are defined only by means of the propositional sets to which they themselves belong. Problems arise in connection with possible circular conclusions. To avoid paradoxes, the demand is sometimes made to avoid impredicative concepts. See also Paradoxes, Russellian Paradoxy, Poincaré.
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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
Dummett, Michael E. Impredicativeness   Dummett
Field, Hartry Impredicativeness   Field
Lorenzen, Paul Impredicativeness   Lorenzen
Poincaré, Henri Impredicativeness   Poincaré
Quine, W.V.O. Impredicativeness   Quine

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