 | Stewart Shapiro - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...known in advance. I regard my explanation ... as the definition of the concepts point, line, plane. ... If one is looking for other definitions of a 'point',...becomes vague and tangled and degenerates into a game of hide and seek" (p. 39). This is an allusion to definitions like Euclid's "a point is that which has... | |
 | Giandomenico Sica - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...known in advance. I regard my explanation ... as the definition of the concepts point, line, plane ... If one is looking for other definitions of a 'point',...becomes vague and tangled and degenerates into a game of hide and seek. This talk of paraphrase is an allusion to 'definitions' like Euclid's 'a point is that... | |
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If one is looking for other definitions of a 'point', eg through paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then I must indeed oppose such attempts in the most decisive way; one is looking for something one can never find because there is nothing there;... 