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A combinatorial theory of possibility (1989)
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The Naturalist theory of possibility now to be advanced will be called a Combinatorial theory. It traces the very idea of possibility to the idea of the combinations — all the combinations — of given, actual elements.
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Philosophers have not found it easy to sort out sets.
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Set theory is peculiarly important... because mathematics can be exhibited as involving nothing but set-theoretical propositions about set-theoretical entities.
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Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
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July 8, 1926
Died:
May 13, 2014
(aged 87)
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