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THE LOGIC OF CONCEPT EXPANSION

Scientists and mathematicians frequently describe the development

of their ﬁeld as a process that includes the expansion of concepts.

Logicians traditionally deny the possibility of conceptual expansion

and the coherence of this description. Meir Buzaglo’s innovative

study proposes a way of expanding logic to include the stretch-

ing of concepts, while modifying the principles which apparently

block this possibility. He offers stimulating discussions of the idea

of conceptual expansion as a normative process, and of the relation

of conceptual expansion to truth, meaning, reference, ontology and

paradox. He analyzes the views of Kant, Wittgenstein, Godel, and

others, paying especially close attention to Frege. His book will be

of interest to a wide range of readers, from philosophers (of logic,

mathematics, language, and science) to logicians, mathematicians,

linguists, and cognitive scientists.

MEIR BUZAGLO is Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in

the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Solomon

Maimon’s Metaphysics: A Reconstruction (Pittsburgh University Press,

forthcoming).

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THE LOGIC OF

CONCEPT EXPANSION

MEIR BUZAGLO

PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (VIRTUAL PUBLISHING)

FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

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¨ Meir Buzaglo 2002

This edition ¨ Meir Buzaglo 2003

First published in printed format 2001

A catalogue record for the original printed book is available

from the British Library and from the Library of Congress

Original ISBN 0 521 80762 X hardback

ISBN 0 511 01635 2 virtual (netLibrary Edition)

To the memory

of my brother Raphael

Buzalgo - Logic of concept expansion.pdf