Awareness of Abstract Objects

Awareness is a two-place determinable relation some determinates of which are seeing, feeling, hearing, etc. Abstract objects are items, such as universals, propositions, numbers, functions, and sets, which contrast with concrete objects, such as solids, liquids, gases, particles, and organisms. It...

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Published inNoûs (Bloomington, Indiana) Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 706 - 726
Main Author Chudnoff, Elijah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Malden, MA Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2013
Wiley Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell
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Epistemology. Philosophy of science. Theory of knowledge
Phenomenology
Philosophy
Knowledge theory
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Summary:Awareness is a two-place determinable relation some determinates of which are seeing, feeling, hearing, etc. Abstract objects are items, such as universals, propositions, numbers, functions, and sets, which contrast with concrete objects, such as solids, liquids, gases, particles, and organisms. It is a nice question what defines the category of abstract objects. This paper defends the view that some intuitions--more specifically, some mathematical intuitions--make their subjects aware of abstract objects.
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I thank Uriah Kriegel, Richard Tieszen, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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ISSN:0029-4624
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DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2011.00851.x