Some Criteria for Acceptable Abstraction

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 52 (3):331-338 (2011)
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Which abstraction principles are acceptable? A variety of criteria have been proposed, in particular irenicity, stability, conservativeness, and unboundedness. This note charts their logical relations. This answers some open questions and corrects some old answers

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