UCLA Logic Colloquium, Nov 5
From: H. Enderton (hbe_at_sonia.math.ucla.edu)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:57:31 +0000 (UTC)
UCLA LOGIC COLLOQUIUM
Friday, November 5, 2004
4:00 p.m.
Mathematical Sciences 6627
UCLA
DONALD A. MARTIN
(Departments of Mathematics
and Philosophy, UCLA)
"GOEDEL'S CONCEPTUAL REALISM"
Goedel is commonly regarded the paradigm of a platonist: of someone
who believes that mathematics is about a realm of independently
existing abstract objects. Goedel certainly is a platonist in this
sense. But his brand of platonism, which he calls "conceptual
realism," has a whole other aspect. For example, Goedel holds that
the truths of mathematics are analytic: that a true mathematical
proposition is true in virtue of the meanings of the terms occurring
in it. This aspect of Goedel's position puts concepts, rather than
objects, to the forefront. I will discuss the relation between the two
aspects of Goedel's realism, and I will try to show that the object
aspect has a smaller role than it is usually taken to have.
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