A Revealing Flaw in Colyvan's Indispensability Argument.
Mark Colyvan uses applications of mathematics to argue that mathematical entities exist. I claim that his argument is invalid based on the assumption that a certain way of thinking about applications, called 'the mapping account,' is correct. My main contention is that successful applications depend...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 61 - 80 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2004
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