Mathematical fictionalism – no comedy of errors.

This article discusses the revolutionary fictionalism about mathematics. It is an agreement with the Platonist that mathematical sentences are to be taken literally for they contain singular terms or quantifiers that range over mathematical entities. This further presents arguments against mathemati...

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Publicado en:Analysis Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 208 - 217
Autor principal: Daly, Chris
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2006
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