Title Foundations without foundationalism : a case for second-order logic / Stewart Shapiro.

Publication Info.	Oxford : Clarendon Press, [1991]
	©1991

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Description	1 online resource (xx, 277 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Oxford logic guides ; 17
	Oxford science publications
	Oxford logic guides ; 17.
	Oxford science publications.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Terms and questions -- Foundationalism and foundations of mathematics -- Theory -- Metatheory -- Second-order logic and mathematics -- Advanced metatheory -- The historical "triumph" of first-order languages -- Second-order logic and rule-following -- The competition.
Summary	Stewart Shapiro presents a distinctive original view of the foundations of mathematics, arguing that second-order logic has a central role to play in laying these foundations.
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Subject	Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
	Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Indexed Term	Mathematical foundations
	Philosophy of mathematics
	Logic and methodology
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Shapiro, Stewart, 1951- Foundations without foundationalism. Oxford : Clarendon Press, ©1991 0198533918 9780198533917 (DLC) 91014355 (OCoLC)23463752
ISBN	9780198533917 (electronic book)
	0198533918 (electronic book)
	0198250290