How Not to Enhance the Indispensability Argument

DOI10.1093/PHILMAT/NKU004MaRDI QIDQ5245993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Russell Marcus

Publication date 17 April 2015

Published in Philosophia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/d67597a01c07494f9dbcf72209360d1e189dd80f

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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