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Reasoning about arbitrary natural numbers from a Carnapian perspective. / Horsten, Leon; Speranski, Stanislav O.

In: Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 48, No. 4, 15.08.2019, p. 685–707.

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Horsten, Leon ; Speranski, Stanislav O. / Reasoning about arbitrary natural numbers from a Carnapian perspective. In: Journal of Philosophical Logic. 2019 ; Vol. 48, No. 4. pp. 685–707.

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abstract = "Inspired by Kit Fine{\textquoteright}s theory of arbitrary objects, we explore some ways in which the generic structure of the natural numbers can be presented. Following a suggestion of Saul Kripke{\textquoteright}s, we discuss how basic facts and questions about this generic structure can be expressed in the framework of Carnapian quantified modal logic.",
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