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Platonism and anti-Platonism in mathematics / Mark Balaguer

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Oxford University Press, ©1998Description: x, 217 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195122305
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 510.1 B171P
LOC classification:
  • 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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