POLYMORPHISM AND THE OBSTINATE CIRCULARITY OF SECOND ORDER LOGIC : A VICTIMS' TALE

The investigations on higher-order type theories and on the related notion of parametric polymorphism constitute the technical counterpart of the old foundational problem of the circularity (or impredicativity) of second and higher-order logic. However, the epistemological significance of such inves...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. - Cambridge University Press. - 24(2018), 1, Seite 1-52
1. Verfasser: PISTONE, PAOLO (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
Schlagworte:second order logic impredicativity intuitionistic type theory normalization proofs Philosophy Mathematics