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2012 Objects: A Study in Kantian Formal Epistemology
Giovanni Boniolo, Silvio Valentini
Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 53(4): 457-478 (2012). DOI: 10.1215/00294527-1722701

Abstract

We propose a formal representation of objects, those being mathematical or empirical objects. The powerful framework inside which we represent them in a unique and coherent way is grounded, on the formal side, in a logical approach with a direct mathematical semantics in the well-established field of constructive topology, and, on the philosophical side, in a neo-Kantian perspective emphasizing the knowing subject’s role, which is constructive for the mathematical objects and constitutive for the empirical ones.

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Giovanni Boniolo. Silvio Valentini. "Objects: A Study in Kantian Formal Epistemology." Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 53 (4) 457 - 478, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1215/00294527-1722701

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Published: 2012
First available in Project Euclid: 8 November 2012

zbMATH: 1276.03011
MathSciNet: MR2995414
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/00294527-1722701

Subjects:
Primary: 03A10
Secondary: 03F65

Keywords: constitutivism , constructivism , formal topology , Kantian epistemology , objects

Rights: Copyright © 2012 University of Notre Dame

Vol.53 • No. 4 • 2012
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