Thin Objects: An Abstractionist Account

by Øystein Linnebo

Are there objects that are "thin" in the sense that not very much is required for their existence? Frege famously thought so. He claimed that the equinumerosity of the knives and the forks suffices for there to be objects such as the number of knives and the number of forks, and for these objects to be identical. The idea of thin objects holds great philosophical promise but has proved hard to explicate. Oystein Linnebo aims to do so by drawing on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199641315
• ISBN13: 9780199641314
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"