[FOM] Predicativism and natural numbers

Charles Silver silver_1 at mindspring.com
Sat Dec 31 17:19:26 EST 2005


	As I understand this--and I'm not sure I do--the notion of "set" is 
entirely different for (at least certain) predicativists.



On Dec 26, 2005, at 9:57 PM, Giovanni Lagnese wrote:

> How do most predicativists justify their acceptance of an impredicative
> definition of the set of natural numbers?
> Is there a philosophical (not practical) argument that justifies this
> exception?



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