'Pi' in the sky
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27240%2F09%3A00021028" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27240/09:00021028 - isvavai.cz</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
'Pi' in the sky
Original language description
We argue for a procedural semantics for mathematical constants, using 'Pi' as a hard test case. The semantics of 'Pi' consists in 'Pi' expressing as its sense a procedure producing the number Pi. What is semantically salient about 'Pi' is only what it means and not also what it denotes. In the final analysis, 'Pi' is shorthand for, and therefore synonymous with, a denite description expressing a denition of Pi and denoting the number so defined. But for each definitionn of Pi there is going to be a pair'Pi',, definitionn(Pi). We avoid homonymy by assigning each such pair to a particular conceptual system.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
BA - General mathematics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA401%2F07%2F0451" target="_blank" >GA401/07/0451: Semantisation of Pragmatics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2009
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Acts of Knowledge: History, Philosophy and Logic
ISBN
978-1-904987-92-5
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
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Number of pages of the book
380
Publisher name
College Publications
Place of publication
London
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