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Nevyřešené slabiny extenzionalismu
Unsolved Weak Points of Extensionalism

Author(s): Marta Vlasáková
Subject(s): Logic
Published by: Filozofický ústav SAV
Keywords: Signification; supposition; interpretations of formal theories; models;

Summary/Abstract: The nominalist attitude in medieval logic supported a fully extensional conception of the sense of expressions. Many arguments against this approach were raised at that time. I would like to show in this article (1) that there is a (hidden) extensional conception of notions in current logic, namely in the interpretation of formal theories and the creation models of them and (2) that, and how, traditional arguments against the extensional conception are relevant also for logic today.

  • Issue Year: 15/2008
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 29-40
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech