Symmetry as a criterion for comprehension motivating quine's 'new foundations'

M. Randall Holmes

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Abstract

A common objection to Quine's set theory "New Foundations" is that it is inadequately motivated because the restriction on comprehension which appears to avert paradox is a syntactical trick. We present a semantic criterion for determining whether a class is a set (a kind of symmetry) which motivates NF.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)195-213
Number of pages19
JournalStudia Logica
Volume88
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2008

Keywords

  • New Foundations
  • Rieger-Bernays permutation methods
  • Symmetry

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