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13606 | Humean conceptions of reality drive the adoption of extensional logic [Ellis] |
Full Idea: A Humean conception of reality lies behind, and motivates, the development of extensional logics with extensional semantics. | |
From: Brian Ellis (Scientific Essentialism [2001], 8.04) | |
A reaction: His proposal seems to be that it rests on the vision of a domain of separated objects. The alternative view seems to be that it is mathematics, with its absolute equality between 'objects', which drives extensionalism. |