Contrastive empiricism and indispensability

DOI10.1023/A:1005427803093MaRDI QIDQ1583762zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Colyvan

Publication date 13 March 2001

Published in Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005427803093

zbMATH Keywords

philosophy of mathematicsphilosophy of scienceQuine-Putnam indispensability argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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