The Ascent from Nominalism: Some Existence Arguments in Plato's Middle Dialogues

by Terry Penner

Book Overview

divisibility in Physics VI. I had been assuming at that time that Aristotle's elimination of reference to the infinitely large in his account of the potential inf inite--like the elimination of the infinitely small from nineteenth century accounts of limits and continuity--gave us everything that was important in a theory of the infinite. Hilbert's paper showed me that this was not obviously so. Suddenly other certainties about Aristotle's (apparently)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401081867
• ISBN13: 9789401081863
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"