ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Generalisation into sentence and predicate positions
Generalisations are fundamental to every scientific discipline: ‘Every cell has a plasma membrane’, ‘Every electron has a negative charge’, ‘Every natural number has a unique successor’. By means of generalisation we turn a statement about a particular individual into a statement about a class of entities. Generalisations are essential to valid deductive reasoning. They are the building blocks of virtually every scientific theory, and therefore essential to understanding, explaining, and making predictions. The most basic and best understood form of generalisation is generalisation over objects (e.g. cells, electrons, numbers). In formal logic, this form of generalisation is achieved via…
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