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18211 | You can reduce ontological commitment by expanding the logic [Field,H] |
Full Idea: One can often reduce one's ontological commitments by expanding one's logic. | |
From: Hartry Field (Science without Numbers [1980], p.ix) | |
A reaction: I don't actually understand this idea, but that's never stopped me before. Clearly, this sounds like an extremely interesting thought, and hence I should aspire to understand it. So I do aspire to understand it. First, how do you 'expand' a logic? |