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Platonism and anti-Platonism in mathematics / Mark Balaguer
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TextPublication details: New York, Oxford University Press, ©1998Description: x, 217 pages ; 25 cmISBN: - 0195122305
- ARCH YNDC 510.1 B171P
- QA8.4 .B345 1998
Contents:
Introduction
Epistemological Argument Against Platonism
A New Platonist Epistemology
Non-Uniqueness Embraced
Fregean Argument Against Anti-Platonism
Denying the Existence of Indispensable Applications: Toward a Nominalization of Quantum Mechanics
Accounting for Indispensable Applications from a Fictionalist Point of View
Unsolvability of the Problem and a Kinder, Gentler Positivism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-211) and index
Introduction
Epistemological Argument Against Platonism
A New Platonist Epistemology
Non-Uniqueness Embraced
Fregean Argument Against Anti-Platonism
Denying the Existence of Indispensable Applications: Toward a Nominalization of Quantum Mechanics
Accounting for Indispensable Applications from a Fictionalist Point of View
Unsolvability of the Problem and a Kinder, Gentler Positivism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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