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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Formal concepts

Kevin Mulligan

pp. 205-223

Abstract

It may seem that there is a big difference between concepts such as the concepts of something, of logical consequence and of disjunction, on the one hand, and concepts such as the concepts of yellow, of emotion or of inflation, on the other hand. Attempts to specify or understand the difference between (some) formal or logical concepts (properties, objects, expressions) and non-formal or non-logical concepts (properties, objects, expressions) loom large in Austrian philosophy. Bolzano, Husserl and Wittgenstein all took the project seriously.

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Mulligan Kevin, Placek Tomasz (2014) The history and philosophy of Polish logic: essays in honour of Jan Woleński. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 205-223

DOI: 10.1057/9781137030894_10

Full citation:

Mulligan Kevin (2014) „Formal concepts“, In: K. Mulligan & T. Placek (eds.), The history and philosophy of Polish logic, Dordrecht, Springer, 205–223.