Logic of imagination. Echoes of Cartesian epistemology in contemporary philosophy of mathematics and beyond

DOI10.1007/s11229-017-1562-1zbMath1452.03019OpenAlexW2762022490MaRDI QIDQ2219025

David Rabouin

Publication date: 19 January 2021

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1562-1

zbMATH Keywords

philosophy of mathematicsDescartesimaginationmathesis universalis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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