Neo-Fregeanism and the Burali-Forti paradox
This chapter considers what form a neo-Fregean account of ordinal numbers might take. It begins by discussing how the natural abstraction principle for ordinals yields a contradiction (the Burali-Forti Paradox) when combined with impredicative second-order logic. It continues by arguing that the fau...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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