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Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. In The Construction of Logical Space Agustín Rayo defends the idea that one's conception of logical space is shaped by one's acceptance or rejection of 'just is'-statements: statements like 'to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O', or 'for the number of the dinosaurs to be zero just is for there to be no dinosaurs'. The resulting picture is used to articulate a conception of metaphysical possibility that does not depend on a reduction of the modal to the non-modal, and to develop a trivialist philosophy of mathematics, according to which the truths of pure mathematics have trivial truth-conditions.
This book investigates how the acceptance or rejection of 'just is'-statements fundamentally constructs an individual's conception of logical space. Agustín Rayo, a professor of philosophy, utilizes a framework of linguistic and metaphysical analysis to argue that these statements serve as the building blocks for our understanding of reality. By examining the relationship between language and modal claims, he proposes a model of metaphysical possibility that avoids traditional reductionist approaches while simultaneously advancing a trivialist philosophy of mathematics.
What You Will Find
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Experts and scholars in analytic philosophy recognize this work as a rigorous contribution to contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of language. Readers frequently note the high level of technical density in the prose, which requires a strong background in formal logic and philosophical terminology to fully grasp the author's arguments.
Page Count:
241
Publication Date:
2013-01-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
ISBN-10:
0191057436
ISBN-13:
9780191057434
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