Parsimony and inference to the best mathematical explanation.
Indispensability-based arguments for mathematical platonism are typically motivated by drawing an analogy between abstract mathematical objects and concrete scientific posits. In this paper, I argue that mathematics can sometimes help to reduce our concrete ontological, ideological, and structural c...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 193; no. 2; pp. 333 - 351 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2016
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