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Extensionalism

The Revolution in Logic

By: Nimrod Bar-Am

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Hardcover | 17 April 2008

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a single life-span. Philosophers, then, do not see more or know more, and they do not see less or know less. They aim to see less detail and more of the abstract. Their details, if you like, are abstractions. Walking on God's earth as a pedestrian, as a farmer working his fields or as a passer-by, one's picture of one's surroundings is every bit as intelligent as that of the pilot riding the sky. The views of the field are radically different, however. One sees only a specific field and in all lively detail: the exact pattern of the land, or even the exact outline of a given leaf, grasshopper, grain of sand even. Acquaintance with minute detail is not without its price: details may stand in the way of conjuring the big picture. It may be difficult to compare whichever field one happens to be in with far off fields, with respect to their size or shape or any other quality. One may wish to inquire if far off fields were already planted, harvested, or even if they exist. A pedestrian may find it hard or even impossible to do so. The pedestrian view contains fine points that the pilot's map never would, but it does not necessarily contain more information, for it lacks the general context. After all, there are only so many items that one can observe and account for at a single glance, a single map, a single book, a single life-span.

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In Praise of Shallowness: A Methodological Credo
Preliminary Notes
Outline of Preliminary Notes	p. 3
Controversies as Contests: The Birth of Intellectual Responsibility	p. 3
Methodology is not Epistemology	p. 5
Conflation is not Confusion	p. 6
Proof is not Sound Inference	p. 10
Setting the Scene: Some Notes on the Pre-history of Logic
The Mother of All Conflations: Parmenides' Proof	p. 17
Early Disagreements Concerning the Power of Proofs: The Uses and Misuses of Dialogues	p. 23
The Sophists' Challenge	p. 31
Aristotle's Logic: The Rise of Essentialism
The Beginning is the Term	p. 39
Chimera in the Dusk: Essentialism	p. 49
Semantics is not Ontology	p. 61
The Mother of All Matrices, or, How Terms Spawn Definitions and Syllogisms	p. 65
The Conflation of the Source with the True, Good and Beautiful (Source)	p. 71
Induction as Spell-Casting	p. 77
The Birth of Induction from Sea Foam	p. 83
Taxonomy of Reality by Syllogism	p. 91
Essentialism Besieged
Ad Hominem Logic: Logic between Aristotle and Boole	p. 97
The Neglect of Judgment	p. 103
Leibniz as Aristotle and Boole Conflated	p. 109
Why Transcendental Logic is no Logic at All	p. 115
The Fall of Essentialism
Extensionalism as Exorcism	p. 123
Mathematical Logic: An Oxymoron	p. 129
The Last Step	p. 137
Epilogue: Extensionalism in a New Context	p. 143
Notes	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 159
Name Index	p. 165
Subject Index	p. 169
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