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Remarks on Buzaglo's concept expansion and Cantor's transfinite

Claudio Ternullo

pp. 259-270

Abstract

Historically, mathematics has often dealt with the "expansion' of previously accepted concepts and notions. In recent years, Buzaglo (The logic of concept expansion, 2002) has provided a formalisation of concept expansion based on forcing. In this paper, I briefly review Buzaglo's logic of concept expansion and I apply it to Cantor's "creation' of the transfinite. I argue that, while Buzaglo's epistemological considerations fit well into Cantor's conceptions, Buzaglo's logic of concept expansion might be unsuitable to justify the creation of the transfinite in terms of a logically rigorous derivation of concepts.

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Antos Carolin, Honzik Radek, Ternullo Claudio, Friedman Sy David (2018) The hyperuniverse project and maximality. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 259-270

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62935-3_12

Full citation:

Ternullo Claudio (2018) „Remarks on Buzaglo's concept expansion and Cantor's transfinite“, In: C. Antos, R. Honzik, C. Ternullo & S. Friedman (eds.), The hyperuniverse project and maximality, Dordrecht, Springer, 259–270.