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Ideas of J. Alberto Coffa, by Text

[Argentinian, fl. 1983, At the University of Pittsburgh, and Indiana University.]

1991 The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap
p.196 Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space
2 Intro p.22 The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition
4 'The conc' p.69 Mathematics generalises by using variables
7 'Log' p.114 Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes
7 'What' p.126 Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable