How Long to Read Reason's Nearest Kin

How Long Does it Take to Read Reason's Nearest Kin?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 23 minutes to read Reason's Nearest Kin by Michael Potter

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How do we account for the truth of arithmetic? And if it does not depend for its truth on the way the world is, what constrains the world to conform to arithmetic? Reason's Nearest Kin is a critical examination of the astonishing progress made towards answering these questions from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In the space of fifty years Frege, Dedekind, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ramsey, Hilbert, and Carnap developed accounts of the content of arithmeticthat were brilliantly original both technically and philosophically. Michael Potter's innovative study presents them all as finding that content in various aspects of the complex linkage between experience, language, thought, and the world. Potter's reading places them all in Kant's shadow since it was hisattempt to ground arithmetic in the spatio-temporal structure of reality that they were reacting against; but it places us in Gödel's shadow since his incompleteness theorems supply us with a measure of the richness of the content they were trying to explain. This stimulating reassessment of some of the classic texts in the philosophy of mathematics reveals many unexpected connections and illuminating comparisons, and offers a wealth of ideas for future work in the subject.

How long is Reason's Nearest Kin?

Reason's Nearest Kin by Michael Potter is 316 pages long, and a total of 80,896 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 99% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Reason's Nearest Kin Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 22 minutes to read Reason's Nearest Kin aloud.

What Reading Level is Reason's Nearest Kin?

Reason's Nearest Kin is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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