Mathematical Constructivism in Spacetime

DOI10.1093/BJPS/49.3.425MaRDI QIDQ4490097zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Geoffrey Hellman

Publication date 9 July 2000

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/49.3.425

zbMATH Keywords

anti-realist view of physicscausal structureconnectivityconstructive continuumconstructive mathematicsconstructivismextremizationgeneral relativity theoryKantian apriorismLeibnizian relationismmentalist mathematicsordersingularity theoremsspacetime physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30) Constructive and recursive analysis (03F60) General relativity (83C99)

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