Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz's work

DOI10.1007/S00407-021-00277-0zbMATH Open1484.01005OpenAlexW3158035634MaRDI QIDQ2052226FDOQ2052226

Federico Raffo Quintana, Oscar M. Esquisabel

Publication date: 25 November 2021

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-021-00277-0

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zbMATH Keywords

possibilityimpossibilityfiction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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• L'expérience de pensée au péril de la fiction : Le cas de la correspondance entre Leibniz et Papin
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• LEIBNIZ ON BODIES AND INFINITIES: RERUM NATURA AND MATHEMATICAL FICTIONS

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