Omnipresence, multipresence and ubiquity: kinds of generality in and around mathematics and logics

DOI10.1007/s11787-010-0023-0zbMath1261.00004OpenAlexW2039988951MaRDI QIDQ1942335

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Publication date: 19 March 2013

Published in: Logica Universalis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-010-0023-0

zbMATH Keywords

metamathematicsmodel theorytheory changeabstract algebrasgenerality of theorieshistory and philosophy of pure and applied mathematicshistory and philosophy of symbolic logicsmonism and pluralismparts and momentssets and multisets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Methodology of mathematics (00A35) Historiography (01A85)

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The power of the hexagon ⋮ Numbers as moments of multisets: a new-old formulation of arithmetic ⋮ A New–old Characterisation of Logical Knowledge

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