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Super Special Seminar Walter Dean (Warwick) On consistency and existence in mathematics
A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜
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Monday, December 9, 2019
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019
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December 10, 2019 -Super Special Seminar Walter Dean (Warwick) The liar and the sorites: towards a uniform arithmetical treatment
Super Special Seminar Walter Dean (Warwick) The liar and the sorites: towards a uniform arithmetical treatment
Abstract: The unification of the paradoxes of truth and vagueness has been a topic of recurrent philosophical interest (e.g. McGee 1989/1990, Tappenden 1993, Field 2003/2008, Priest 1994/2010). I will present a sequence of observations which illustrate how the liar and sorites paradoxes are formally related, culminating in the observation that both give rise to similar…
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
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December 12, 2019 -Super Special Seminar Walter Dean (Warwick) On consistency and existence in mathematics
Super Special Seminar Walter Dean (Warwick) On consistency and existence in mathematics
Abstract:聽 Following the publication of his Foundations of Geometry聽in 1899, David Hilbert engaged in a well-known debate with Frege which concerned (amongst other things) the question of whether the consistency of a set of axioms entails the existence of a model in which they are satisfied.聽 聽I will consider this dimension of the so-called Frege-Hilbert…
Friday, December 13, 2019
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Saturday, December 14, 2019
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
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