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Completeness: Completeness typically refers to the property of a system where all necessary elements or operations exist, ensuring that every statement is either provable or disprovable within that system. See also Incompleteness, Definiteness, Determination, Distinction, Indistinguishability._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ian Hacking on Completeness - Dictionary of Arguments
I 162 Description/StrawsonVsLeibniz: monads: a "complete description" is pointless! VsPutnam: internal realism requires the idea of a "full description" because of ideal acceptability. >G.W. Leibniz, >Internal Realism, >Completeness, >Description, >Acceptability, >Assertibility, >Ideal assertibility._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Hacking I I. Hacking Representing and Intervening. Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, Cambridge/New York/Oakleigh 1983 German Edition: Einführung in die Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften Stuttgart 1996 |