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...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 61 - 80
Main Author:	Pincock, Christopher
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Jan2004
Subjects:	Mathematical functions Mathematical programming Cybernetics Statistics Colyvan, Mark Mathematical mappings
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