The case for believing that there are abstract objects of various kinds, including those most discussed by philosophers, for example numbers and sets, is, in essence, very simple: we believe to be true many statements whose truth requires the existence of objects which, on any reasonable construal of the abstract/concrete distinction, are abstract. Familiar and plausible views concerning thought, reference and knowledge seem to leave no room for understanding abstract objects. Bob Hale develops the case for a broadly Fregean Platonism in this defence of a new view of abstract objects.
- ISBN10 0631145931
- ISBN13 9780631145936
- Publish Date 26 November 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 January 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English