Definition in mathematics

DOI10.1007/S13194-018-0203-YMaRDI QIDQ2289711zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Cellucci

Publication date 24 January 2020

Published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-018-0203-y

zbMATH Keywords

heuristic conception of definitionheuristic differences among definitionsjustification of definitionsproof-generated definitionsrole of definitions in proofsstipulative conception of definition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Methodology of mathematics (00A35)

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