Mathematical Existence

DOI10.2178/BSL/1122038992MaRDI QIDQ3370612zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Penelope Maddy

Publication date 8 February 2006

Published in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2178/bsl/1122038992

zbMATH Keywords

arealismaxiom of choicecontinuum hypothesisexistenceJohn SteelPlatonismrobust realismset theorythin realismtruth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Set theory (03E99)

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