Single Idea 10144

[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence]

Full Idea

A procedural form of postulationism says that instead of stipulating that certain statements are true, one specifies certain procedures for extending the domain to one in which the statement will in fact be true, without invoking an abstract ontology.

Gist of Idea

Postulationism says avoid abstract objects by giving procedures that produce truth

Source

Kit Fine (The Limits of Abstraction [2002], II.5)

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'The Limits of Abstraction' [OUP 2008], p.100


A Reaction

The whole of philosophy might go better if it was founded on procedures and processes, rather than on objects. The Hopi Indians were right.