A Burgessian critique of nominalistic tendencies in contemporary mathematics and its historiography

DOI10.1007/s10699-011-9223-1zbMath1283.03006arXiv1104.0375OpenAlexW2076162902WikidataQ55871461 ScholiaQ55871461MaRDI QIDQ2391944

Mikhail G. Katz, Karin Usadi Katz

Publication date: 5 August 2013

Published in: Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0375

zbMATH Keywords

continuitycompletenessinfinitesimallaw of excluded middleCantornominalismCauchyWeierstrassconstructivismepsilonticsFelix Kleinnon-ArchimedeanAbraham RobinsonDedekindSimon StevinDu Bois-ReymondBurgessmathematical rigoradequalityErrett BishopArchimedean continuumBernoullian continuumFermat-Robinson standard partLeibniz-Łoś transfer principlenominalistic reconstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Constructive and recursive analysis (03F60) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) History of real functions (26-03) Historiography (01A85) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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