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Introduction, philosophy: the introduction of objects establishes rules for the use of linguistic expressions for the objects, not a determination or description of these objects. See also definitions, use, language, expressiveness, localization.
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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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Hartry Field on Introduction - Dictionary of Arguments

I 158
Introduction/Abstract Objects/Abstraction/Crispin Wright: Thesis: volumes as well as directions and numbers are to be introduced by abstraction.
>Abstraction.
I 157
Field: E.g. simple abstraction: is suitable for saying that our speech of directions is related to parallelism.
Cf. >Definitions/Frege
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But this does not quite correspond appropriately for numbers as related to non-numerical speech (and "non-quantification").
>Numbers, >Ontology, >Mathematical entities, >Abstract objects, >Platonism.
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II 166
Introduction/Field/(s): the use of expressions must follow according to the rules of their introduction.
>Language use, cf. >Use theory, >Word meaning.

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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.

Field I
H. Field
Realism, Mathematics and Modality Oxford New York 1989

Field II
H. Field
Truth and the Absence of Fact Oxford New York 2001

Field III
H. Field
Science without numbers Princeton New Jersey 1980

Field IV
Hartry Field
"Realism and Relativism", The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1982), pp. 553-67
In
Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994


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